Definition of "juazeiro"

The police trotted out there, amid juazeiro trees with sharp-edged branches and thickets of velame that irritated their skins.

1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 40

Behind his private tent was a yard enclosed by barbed wire and shaded by the camp's only juazeiro tree.

2008, Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Seamstress

Due to its drought resistance, juazeiro is very important economically for the northeast region of Brazil, and practically all parts of the plant are used by the population.

2021, Mahendra Rai, Shandesh Bhattarai, Chistiane M. Feitosa, editors, Ethnopharmacology of Wild Plants