aroeira en · NOUN
Etymology
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese aroeira.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The California pepper tree (actually native to South America, not California) (Schinus molle).
In another study carried out with andiroba (Carapa guianensis) and aroeira (Schinus molle) oils, solubilization of oily phase with organic solvent allowed only to obtain coarse emulsions; nanoemulsions (respectively with mean droplet around 240 and 130 nm) could finally be produced by a further high pressure homogenization step [52 ].
2016 January 8, “Development of a Larvicidal Nanoemulsion with Pterodon emarginatus Vogel Oil”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
- (uncountable) Any of the trees of genera Schinus and Astronium.