îuá

• IPA^(key): /juˈa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: îu‧á

îuá (unpossessable) (North Tupi)

1. (hapax legomenon) a solanum similar to the jurubeba. Further details are uncertain.
   • [1648, Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book II, chapter IV (in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 63:

     Iva Braſilienſibus, eſt ſrutex eodem modo creſcens quo Iurepeba, ſimilique ligno, ſed ſolet altius affurgere. Caudex ſpinoſus ac leni hirſutie præditus. Folia inordinate poſita, pallide viridia, oblonga, non ira laciniata ut Iurepebæ, leni hirſutie ſeu lanugine infecta. / Flores itidem ſert ut Iurepeba, lacteos, quinque foliis conſtantes, inſtar ſtellæ expanſos, in medio autem ſtaminula lutea ſunt erecta. / Fructum ſert magnitudine majoris pomi vulgaris, rotundum, initio ſaturate vindem ac brunna lanugine tectum per maturitatem citrini colons ac ſplendcntcm. Cortex inſtar teſtæ ovi frangibilis, intus continct pulpam ſucculentam , flaveſcentem, quæ copioſa ſemina, lentium figura, magnitudine & colore continet. Pulpa illa admodum dulcis eſt & grata ſormicis; ab hominibus non comeditur.

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• → Portuguese: juá

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “îuá”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 195, column 2