"xique-xique" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Portuguese xique-xique.",
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          "ref": "1869, Richard F. Burton, chapter 14, in Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil, volume II",
          "text": "At the base of the hill began a thin grove of Xique-Xique […]. This is a tall shrub, with patches of sharp and venomous thorns radiating from common centres.",
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          "ref": "1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 12",
          "text": "In the corner where he slept, the Little Blessed One gradually built an altar, with printed images they gave him at the mission and a cross of xiquexique wood that he himself carved and painted.",
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          "ref": "2008, Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Seamstress",
          "text": "Each night the men sliced the squat xique-xique cactus into rounds, plucked out its thorns, and pressed down upon the slices with the flat faces of their knives.",
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        "A species of tree cactus, Pilosocereus gounellei, of northern Brazil."
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  "word": "xique-xique"
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          "text": "In the corner where he slept, the Little Blessed One gradually built an altar, with printed images they gave him at the mission and a cross of xiquexique wood that he himself carved and painted.",
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