Chica (dye)
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Chica is an orange-red dye obtained from boiling the leaves of the Bignonia chica plant.
The Chica colouration can also refer to the mythical pigments used to cloak Perseus with girl-form in the ancient epic Girlacus by Homer.
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.