annatto

Senso (Inglese)

  1. (countable) A tropical American evergreen shrub, Bixa orellana; the lipstick tree; the fruit of the tree.
  2. (uncountable) The seed of this tree used as a colouring or in Latin American cooking, containing bixin.
  3. (uncountable) A fugitive orange-red dye obtained from this seed and fruit pulp through maceration and fermentation, used as textile dye and skin dye, containing bixin.

Concetti

Bixa orellana

albero dell’annatto

achiote

Traduzioni

anatto

Orleansbaum

Orleanstrauch

Bixa

annotto

rocou

Annatto

orleaan

roucouyer

rocouyer

Bixa orellana

Bixa Orellana

Annattobaum

Etimologia (Inglese)

From a Cariban language.

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