Pachonta: alternatives and connections

To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc.

A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, m…

A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian.

A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.

The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceae, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yiel…

A highly stimulating volatile inflammable oil, distilled from the leaves of an East Indian tree (Melaleuca cajuputi, etc.) It is green…

An East Indian tree (Averrhoa Carambola), and its acid, juicy fruit; called also Coromandel gooseberry.

A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North Amer…

An East Indian porter or carrier; a laborer transported from the East Indies, China, or Japan, for service in some other country.

Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east s…

A hydrocarbon extracted from gutta-percha, as a yellow, resinous substance; -- called also fluanil.

A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu, and Arenga sacch…

A thin balsam or wood oil derived from the Diptcrocarpus laevis, an East Indian tree. It is used in medicine, and as a substitute for…

A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, / Dichopsis, Gutta. It becom…

A rich, powerful, perfume, obtained from the volatile oil of the flowers of Canada odorata, an East Indian tree.

Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like.

A prefix signifying Indian (i. e., East Indian); of or pertaining of India.