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Definition of Calisayas
1. calisaya [n] - See also: calisaya
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calisayas
Literary usage of Calisayas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Peruvian Bark: A Popular Account of the Introduction of Chinchona by Clements Robert Markham (1880)
"Collection of Shrub calisayas. along the verge or a ridge, near the Mamn-kunka,
the cargo-mule fell headlong down a precipice of twenty feet into a dense ..."
2. Days with Industrials: Adventures and Experiences Among Curious Industries by Alexander Hay Japp (1889)
"But as most of the calisayas we have yet seen in Ceylon are broad-leaved, it is
reassuring to learn from Mr. Moens that largeness of size in leaf is quite ..."
3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1852)
"These so-called calisayas are only and simply lancifolia bark, and have no
connection with the genuine calisaya, except in the general features I have ..."
4. Travels in Peru and India: While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona by Clements Robert Markham (1862)
"The shrub-calisayas, which were growing ... There is a difference in elevation
of about 1000 feet between the locality where we saw the shrub- calisayas, ..."
5. Prize Essay on Cinchona Cultivation Written for the Dikoya Planters' Association by Thomas North Christie (1883)
"... and as a rule the Commoner calisayas may at once be detected by their bud (the
difference illustrated below) and the texture of their leaf, ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1888)
"None of the more valuable chinchona trees, and certainly,none of the calisayas,
can stand frost, but they can as ..."
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