Definition of "jicara" []

• A cup or bowl made from the fruit of the calabash tree. (noun)

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• "Beaded bowls (jicara in Spanish, rakure in Huichol) evolved in this same manner."
• "In the first case, the offering is a jicara or gourd of some sacred drink"
• "A girl sympathizing with him in his plight brought a jicara of bluish water."
• "After about three miles, we came out on a small flat plain, probably alluvial, about twenty acres in extent, mostly covered with grass, with a few scattered jicara trees."
• "This led over undulating savannahs, with grass and jicara trees, and small clumps of low trees and shrubs on stony hillocks."