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Webster 1913 Edition


Goa powder

Go′a pow′der

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[So called from
Goa
, on the Malabar coast, whither it was shipped from Portugal.]
A bitter powder (also called
araroba
) found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree (
Andira araroba
) and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained.