[Native name in Central America.] A genus of small trees, natives of tropical America, from the fruits of one species of which (B. orellana) the dye anatta is prepared. Hence Bixin, a. The coloring principle of anatta; b. A variety of anatta of greatly increased coloring power.
1879. Watts, Dict. Chem., I. 600.
1880. Syd. Soc. Lex., s.v.
