Achras (akras)

[L., Sapotaceant is an evergreen tree, with thick shining leaves milky juice, is often cultivated for its edible fruit, the sapodilla or sapodilla plum. Its bark (Jamaica bark) is astringent and is used as a febrifuge; the seeds are aperient and diuretic. 2. A genus of coleopterous insects. Water house, 1879. achroiocythemia, achroiocythemia (a-kroi"ô-si-the mi-a), n. [NL., prop. achrœocythemia, corpuscles. Also called oligochrome mia. corpusel achroite (ak'ro-it), n. [ on the island of Elba.