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pareira (iou)



pareira noun. E18.
[Portuguese parreira vine trained against a wall.]
In full pareira brava . A drug, formerly much used as a diuretic, made from the root of any of several Brazilian climbing plants; any of the plants yielding this drug, esp. Chondrodendron tomentosum (family Menispermaceae) and (more fully false pareira) the related velvet-leaf, Cissampelos pareira.