Beaded bowls (jicara in Spanish, rakure in Huichol) evolved in this same manner. From Wordnik.com. [Huichol Indians: their art and symbols] Reference
The jicara trees grow apart at equal distances, as if planted by man. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
It is the "xicalli" of the ancient Aztecs, changed to "jicara" by the. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
In the first case, the offering is a jicara or gourd of some sacred drink. From Wordnik.com. [Animal Figures in the Maya Codices] Reference
A girl sympathizing with him in his plight brought a jicara of bluish water. From Wordnik.com. [The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution] Reference
This led over undulating savannahs, with grass and jicara trees, and small clumps of low trees and shrubs on stony hillocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
After about three miles, we came out on a small flat plain, probably alluvial, about twenty acres in extent, mostly covered with grass, with a few scattered jicara trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
After crossing the plains we rode over undulating hills, here called savannahs, with patches of forest on the rising ground, and small plains on which grows the ternate-leaved jicara. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
The hard thin shell of the fruit, carved in various patterns on the outside, is made into cups and drinking-vessels by the natives, who also cultivate other species of jicara, with round fruit, as large as a man's head, from which the larger drinking-bowls are made. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
Savannahs, sparingly timbered, were next crossed; then we reached one of those level plains, with black soil and blocks of porous trachyte lying on the surface, which are swamps in the rainy season, and have for vegetation sedgy grasses and scattered jicara trees, cactuses and thorny acacias. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
Some words are not properly English at all, appearing to be nonce borrowings: jadu, jama, jambee, jamdani, jami, jampan, jararacussu, jasey, Jataka, jauk, jenna, jeziah, jheel, jhool, jicara, ... ka, kaaba, kaama, kabaya, kaberu, kaffiyeh, kaha. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 2] Reference
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