jagua

A tree of species Genipa americana, native to the tropical forests of North and South America, as well as the Caribbean; genipap.

The jagua tree is, in fact, one of the most well-disbursed native trees of the rainforests.

Some Indians used a preparation concocted from the fruit of the jagua tree (Genipa americana), a sixty-foot-high deciduous tree that grows in much of tropical America and produces an elliptical yellow-brown fruit about the size of an orange.

The oval-shaped fruit of this tree; genipap.

Nothing is wasted— leaves are used to make baskets, the juice of the jagua fruit is applied as a mosquito repellent, and the river provides fresh water for bathing.

This concoction, which Estellita Lins claims capable of dissolving a candiru lodged in the urethra, is a hot tea made from jagua juice. Jagua is the fruit of the tropical tree Genipa americana.

The extract of this fruit, used as a dye for temporary body art and tattoos that stain the upper layer of the skin.

Coordinate term: henna

Ellipsis of jagua palm, also called inajá, Attalea maripa.

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jagua + pytã (“red”) → jaguapytã (“cougar”)