wallaban.
/ˈwɒləbə/ A large South American timber-tree ( Eperua falcata). Also attributive, as wallaba oil, wallaba tree.
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1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. i. 24 Here the..wallaba, purple-heart,..and mora, are met with in vast abundance.
1845 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom (1846) 550 Eperua falcata is the Wallaba-tree of Guiana.
1862 Catal. Contrib. Brit. Guiana to London Exhib. 14 Wallaba Oil.
1862 Catal. Contrib. Brit. Guiana to London Exhib. 39 Wallaba... Used for shingles, staves, palings, and posts house-frames... Yields an oil and gum resin having medicinal properties.
1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. vii. 230 I passed the great Australian Blue-Gum which overhangs the road, and the Wallaba-tree.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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