Definition of Quebrecho
||Que*bra"cho (?), n. [Sp.]
(Bot.) A Chilian apocynaceous tree (Aspidosperma
Quebracho); also, its bark, which is used as a febrifuge, and for
dyspnœa of the lung, or bronchial diseases; -- called also
white quebracho, to distinguish it from the red
quebracho, a Mexican anacardiaceous tree (Loxopterygium
Lorentzii) whose bark is said to have similar properties.
J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (botany) A Chilean apocynaceous tree; species: Aspidosperma Quebracho
Spanish
- a quebracho tree
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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