Citations:savanilla

fish

 * mentions:


 * 1888, Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register
 * The commonly-accepted name is tarpon, but it was formerly written tarpom and tarpum. It is sometimes called "Jew-fish," especially in Georgia and Florida, and elsewhere 'silver-fish" and "silver king." Farther west among the French-speaking people of the gulf coast it is the "grand-ecaille" (great scale), and in Texas the "savanilla." It is edible, though not especially prized as an article of food.
 * 1892, George O. Shields, Samuel C. Clarke, J. G. Aylwis Creighton, American Game Fishes: Their Habits, Habitat, and Peculiarities, page 111:
 * It is the "Silver Fish" of Pensacola, the "Grand Ecaille" (large scale fish), or "Grandykye," as it is pronounced and sometimes spelled, and the "Savanilla" of Texas.
 * 1896, William Charles Harris, The American Angler, volume 26, page 263:
 * name which is duplicated in the case of the big perchlike "jew-fish," found in the same waters as the tarpon. It is the grande-ecaille (large-scale) or "gran-dy-kye," as it is sometimes spelled and pronounced, and the "savanilla" of Texas.

a type of valley? or a plant or fruit?

 * 1963, Anthropological Papers, Numbers 63-67, page 96:
 * Uvalama (huhuwali) (Vitez mollis HBK.)—Tree of the canyons and foothill valleys, especially in the savanillas. The fruit is eaten raw or mashed up with sugar. Summer. It is rather bitter. Occasionally one sees the fruits for sale in the lower markets.
 * 1963, Anthropological Papers, issue 186 page 93:
 * Common to the barrancas and to the savanillas of the foothill valleys to the south.
 * 2004, Howard Scott Gentry, Agaves of Continental North America ISBN 0816523959, page 588:
 * 45 mi. NW of Tehuantepec along Pan American Hwy., 30 Sept. 1952 (1). Foothills with short-tree forest. Plentiful on open hills of savanillas.

a Colombian variety of rhatany, formerly used medicinally

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 * 1853, Proceedings: General index to volumes one to fifty of the Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association, page 61:
 * Dr. Schuchardt (Pharm. Jour. July, 1856, 29) has given an elaborate paper on the Peruvian and Colombian or savanilla rhatanys, illustrated with sectional figures of their roots. Dr. S. thinks the savanilla rhatany is medicinally equal to the Peruvian.

a fruit or other edible thing

 * 1911, E. Quincy Smith, Travels at Home and Abroad, volume 1, page 26:
 * Half a dozen other kinds of fruits and vegetables, mangoes, sour sop, custard apples, star apples, savanillas, yams, yampees, plantains and breadfruit were served at lunch and dinner, and we ended each meal as we began our breakfast.