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pichurim bean (plural pichurim beans)

  1. The seed of a Brazilian lauraceous tree (Nectandra pichurim) of a taste and smell between those of nutmeg and sassafras, sometimes used medicinally.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pichurim bean”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)