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bilian|ˈbɪlɪən|
Also balean, billian, bulean.
[Malay.]
The ironwood of Borneo.
1812J. Hunt in H. Keppel Exped. Borneo (1846) II. p. xxxi, The woods about Pontiana for carpentry and joinery are, kayu bulean, chena, [etc.]. 1846J. Brooke Ibid. viii. 167 The Chinese export considerable quantities of timber from Sambas and Pontiana, particularly of the kind called Balean by the natives, or the lion-wood of the Europeans. 1882H. De Windt Equator 63 Loading ‘bilian’ or iron wood. 1887Daly Digging S. Austr. 272 Forests of bilian..in British North Borneo. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 417/1 With the exception of billian (iron wood) from the river Rejang, very little is exported. 1906Macm. Mag. Nov. 42 That wonderful wood billian, the Bornean ironwood. |