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Kava

noun
(Written also kawa, kava, and ava)
1.
An alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub.  Synonym: kavakava.






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"Kava" Quotes from Famous Books



... the amoeba-like unicellular organisms we find the earth-worm preparing his piece of lettuce (as Darwin showed) with a juice exuded from his mouth, a "relish" reminding one of the Kava drink of the South Sea Islanders. To "opsonise" or render attractive by the application of chemical "relish" is a proceeding which we find in operation in the feeding of the minute colourless corpuscles which engorge the still more minute bacteria—and also ...
— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester

... of red cloth. The natives got the better of the bargain, for, when they had received their price, they hurried off without delivering their own goods. Further on, an old chief delivered an harangue from the shore, holding a branch of Kava in his hand. "We knew from what we had read of several voyages that it was a token of peace; and throwing him some pieces of cloth we answered by the word 'TAYO,' which signified 'friend' in the dialect ...
— Laperouse • Ernest Scott



Words linked to "Kava" :   intoxicant, Polynesia, inebriant, alcoholic beverage, alcohol, alcoholic drink



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