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名詞

macambira (複数形 macambiras)

1. A thorny shrub, Bromelia laciniosa, of the pineapple family, native to Brazil and Argentina.
   • 1984, Helen R. Lane, translating Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society 2012, p. 267:

     The circus people proceeded, amid macambiras and across stony ground, taking turns pulling the wagon.

   • 2006, Ehsan Masood, ‎Daniel Schaffer, Dry: Life Without Water, p. 114:

     Pineapple-like plants known as macambiras, with worrisome thorny red blades, spring up in the hundreds out of the ground.