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GUILIELMA GASIPAES

Specialty Definition: GUILIELMA GASIPAES

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Botanical

The green fruits of this honey tree are edible fresh or cooked, and are relished by cattle. They are crushed in water to make a beverage, and to add flavor to meats. The leaves and fruits are eaten by cattle and deer. The bark is used for cordage, and is regarded as sudorific. It is used to treat elephantiasis, cutaneous diseases, and chesxt afflictions. The sap is used to clarify syrup in sugar-making, and was used for food and shaving cream in Colombia. In Darien, the uncooked bark is soaked with malva to drink for afflictions of the kidney and liver (!). In the Pearl Islands, people believe that touching the tree will slow bleeding (!). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: GUILIELMA GASIPAES

Non-English Usage: "GUILIELMA GASIPAES" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Latin (Peach palm).

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Alternative Orthography: GUILIELMA GASIPAES


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 55 49 4C 49 45 4C 4D 41      47 41 53 49 50 41 45 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01010101 01001001 01001100 01001001 01000101 01001100 01001101 01000001 00100000 01000111 01000001 01010011 01001001 01010000 01000001 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#85 &#73 &#76 &#73 &#69 &#76 &#77 &#65 &#32 &#71 &#65 &#83 &#73 &#80 &#65 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0055 0049 004C 0049 0045 004C 004D 0041      0047 0041 0053 0049 0050 0041 0045 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

41554346433946473524135534350353953

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