embiraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

embira (uncountable)

1. Any of several related Brazilian trees of the genus Xylopia, or the bast fiber they yield.
   • 1811, Robert Southey, View of the State of Brasil in 1581, in The Scots Magazine, page 280:

     No hemp grew in the country, the wild palm afforded one substitute; and the bark of the embira supplied cordage and [...]

   • 1946, Handbook of South American Indians

     page 459: [...] two right-angled notches prevented the caraguatá or embira' string from slipping.

     page 535: The embira or caraguatá strings, were made taut or lax by twisting.

   • 1948, Julian Haynes Steward, Bulletin, issue 143, part 3:

     page 259: Alfred R. Wallace (1853) says that they were made of three strips of embira, [...]

     page 287: Boys 8 to 12, who do not yet use the penis sheath, wear under their buriti belts two fringed embira aprons, one over the other.

   • 1997, Paul Oliver, Encyclopedia of the Vernacular Architecture of the World: Cultures and habitats:

     The floor beams are 10 cm x 15 cm (4 in x 6 in) in diameter and are tied with embira (bast fibre). When the structure of sticks has been set up the mixture of earth and manure is spread on it by hand.