rocoa

Definitions

noun The orange-colored pulp covering the seeds of the tropical plant Bixa Orellana, from which annotto is prepared. See annoto.

noun The orange-coloured pulp covering the seeds of the tropical plant Bixa orellana, from which annatto is prepared.

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word rocoa.

These they clasped in a warm, fulsome embrace: they were smeared from head to foot with rocoa

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
The women rested on the bank like river-nymphs: their costume was somewhat less prudish than that of the men, the coat of rocoa being confined to their faces, which were further decorated with joints of reed thrust through the nose and ears.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
The artists of the tribe, filling their palms with rocoa, and moistening the same with saliva, went up to their late patrons and began to decorate their faces.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
One of the three ambassadors, a graceful rogue of twenty-five, marked all over with rocoa and lote, so as to earn for himself the nickname of "the Panther," gamboled and caracoled in front of the procession as if to give it an entertainment.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various