[Tupi-Guarani jacarandá.] Name given to various trees of tropical America yielding fragrant and ornamental wood (called, in common with various other timbers, rosewood); esp. to those of the genus Jacaranda (N.O. Bignoniaceæ). b. The wood of any of these trees. c. A drug obtained from a tree of the genus Jacaranda.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Jacaranda,… a name given by some authors to the tree the wood of which is the log-wood, used in dying and in medicine.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 92. The fine Jacaranda or Rosewood of commerce … is produced by a species of Mimosa.
1851. Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib., 1353. Writing table, of Jacaranda wood.
1887. Syd. Soc. Lex., s.v., Jacaranda, in the form of a fluid extract of the leaves of J. procera,… is given … in chronic catarrh of the bladder.
