Also 8 uruca, 9 uruku. [a. Brazilian (Tupi) urucú anatta. Cf. ROUCOU.] † a. Anatta; = ROUCOU 2. Obs. b. The anatta-tree, Bixa orellana; = ROUCOU 1.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 840. The women … are well faced, painted red with Vrucu, which growes in a cod like a beane.
1666. J. Davies, trans. Rochefort’s Caribby Isles, 43. The Roucou is the same tree which the Brasilians call Urucu.
1681. Grew, Musæum, II. § ii. i. 217. The Fruit of the Urucu.
1753. Chambers’ Cycl., Suppl., Orleana, in the materia medica, the name of the arnotto, or uruca.
1863. Bates, Nat. Amazon, I. 222. The red [tints are made] with the seeds of the Urucú, or anatto plant.
attrib. 1894. Nation (N.Y.), 14 June, 451/3. A red oil made of the uruku-plant.
