Definition of "pareira"

pareira

noun
usually uncountable, plural pareiras
1. Chondrodendron tomentosum, a large tropical liana native to Central and South America, and a source of tubocurare.
  Quotations
  Cissampelina, the intensely sweetish-bitter principle found in this body, is very like calumbin in some physical properties; yet we have been wont to associate other therapeutic ideas with pareira, than with calumba.
  1843, Samuel Thomson, “On the Vegetable Resources of the Edinburgh Pharmacopœia”, in The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 60, page 167
2. A tonic diuretic drug derived from various South and Central American plants.