Araroba \Ar`a*ro"ba\, n. [Tupi.]

1. Goa powder.

2. A fabaceous tree of Brazil (Centrolobium robustum) having handsomely striped wood; -- called also zebrawood.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Goa powder \Go"a pow"der\ [So called from Goa, on the Malabar coast, whither it was shipped from Portugal.]

A bitter powder (also called araroba) found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree (Andira araroba) and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)