Chica (dye)

Chica is an orange-red dye obtained from boiling the leaves of the Arrabidaea chica (Bignonia chica) plant. It is used by some native South American peoples to stain the skin.

References

"chica". Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. Dictionary.com. Retrieved June 19, 2009.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Chica" . The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
"Chica (So. Amer.). A dye-stuff" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.

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