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Chica (dye)

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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.

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  • "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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