[App. the name in a lang. of the Orinoco.] A red pigment obtained from the Bignonia Chica, a native of Guiana and Colombia, used by some native tribes for painting the skin. (Also called carajuru.)

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1830.  Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 237. Chica is a red feculent substance obtained by boiling the leaves of Bignonia Chica in water.

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1860.  Mayne Reid, Odd People, 253.

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1852.  Th. Ross, trans. Humboldt’s Trav., I. ix. 308. His skin besmeared with annatto, chica, or some other copper-red colour.

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  Chica2: see CHICHA.

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