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wallaba|ˈwɒləbə|
[? a. native name.]
A large South American timber-tree (Eperua falcata). Also attrib., as wallaba oil, wallaba tree.
1825Waterton Wand. S. Amer. i. (1903) 17 Here the..wallaba, purple-heart,..and mora, are met with in vast abundance. 1845Lindley Veg. Kingd. (1846) 550 Eperua falcata is the Wallaba-tree of Guiana. 1862List Contrib. fr. B. Guiana to Lond. Exhib. in Veness El Dorado (1866) App. 122 Wallaba Oil. Ibid. 137 Wallaba... Used for house-frames, shingles, staves, palings, and posts. Yields an oil and gum resin having medicinal properties. 1871Kingsley At Last vii, I passed the great Australian Blue-Gum which overhangs the road, and the Wallaba-tree. |