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| jab·o·ran·di [ jàbbə rándee ] (plural jab·o·ran·dis or jab·o·ran·di) |
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1. dried leaves used as medicine: dried leaves that yield the drug pilocarpine
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2. tropical American bush: a bush of the rue family whose leaves yield pilocarpine. Native to: tropical America. Genus Pilocarpus.
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| [Early 17th century. Via Portuguese< Tupi-Guarani jaburandi "somebody who spits"; from the increased saliva of those who chew the leaves] |
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