Lexic.us

Definition of Tuba root

1. Noun. Woody vine having bright green leaves and racemes of rose-tinted white flowers; the swollen roots contain rotenone.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuba Root

Literary usage of Tuba root

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Where the Strange Trails Go Down by Edward Alexander Powell (1921)
"Early the next morning the canoes are filled with water, in which the tuba root is beaten until the water is as white and frothy as soapsuds. ..."

2. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1920)
"Results are recorded for employing a decoction or powder oí tuba root as an insecticide in vegetable cultivation.—TF Chipp. HORTICULTURE PRODUCTS 146. ..."

3. Spices and how to Know Them by Walter M. Gibbs (1909)
"A strong solution of tuba root is sufficient to keep away white ants, and tuba root mixed with juice of common tobacco will prevent the black and white bug ..."

4. The Home-life of Borneo Head-hunters: Its Festivals and Folk-lore by William Henry Furness (1902)
"The persistence of the Tuba-root design in all of these patterns is, possibly, due to the fact that Tuba-fishing is considered more or less a feminine sport ..."

5. In Malay Forests by William George Maxwell (1911)
"... for our object, and said that he had in his house, stored and ready for use, the quantity of tuba root that we should require, about ten hundredweight. ..."

6. Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society by Straits Branch (1884)
"Tuba, is the plant, aktir tuba, the tuba root, (the tion used by the Malays for stupefying fish), ..."

7. Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo: A Record of Intimate by Edwin Herbert Gomes (1911)
"Most of the people bring with them some tuba root, made up into small close bundles, the thickness of a man's wrist, and about six inches long. ..."

8. Through Central Borneo: An Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of the by Carl Lumholtz (1920)
"Some long pieces of tuba-root were lying there, and he squatted on his heels facing the principal men who were sitting on the bank south of him. ..."

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