boldo

[ bol-doh ]

noun

, plural bol·dos.

1. a Chilean evergreen tree, Peumus boldus, cultivated in California for its aromatic foliage.

Word History and Origins

Origin of boldo¹

First recorded in 1710–20; from Latin American Spanish, from Araucanian voldo

Example Sentences

Oliveira said they drink a variety of traditional teas made from the leaves of various fruit trees, garlic or an herb called boldo.

From Washington Times

Rafael Boldo, 25, and Camila Sierra, 27, visitors from São Paolo, were holding a pink Sony at arm’s length and snapping themselves as they faced south on West 43rd Street.

From New York Times

It was like the hide-and-seek which I used to play with Boldo, my blood-hound puppy, among the dusty waste of the lumber-room over the Hall of Judgment, before my father took him back to the kennels for biting Christian's Elsa, a child who lived in the lower Guard opposite to the Red Tower.

From Project Gutenberg

But this was a stranger hide-and-seek than mine and Boldo's had been.

From Project Gutenberg