Abroma
noun
Abro·ma
əˈbrōmə
: a genus of Asian and Australian woody plants (family Sterculiaceae) the bark of which yields a strong white fiber see devil's-cotton
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from New Latin, from a- a- entry 2 + Greek brôma "food," from brō- (going back to Indo-European *gʷṛh3- "devour, consume") + -ma, deverbal suffix of result
First Known Use
1795, in the meaning defined above
- loss-and-gain account
- loss-leader
- Lossen rearrangement
- losser
- losses
- myristic acid
- Myristicaceae
- myristicaceaes
- myristicaceous
- myristicae
- myristicas
- Myristicivora
- myrmec-
- Myrmecia
- myrmeciae
- myrmecias
- myrmeco-
- myrmecobii
- myrmecobiine
- Myrmecobius
- myrmecobiuses
- myrmecochorous
- myrmecochory
- myrmecoid
- myrmecoidy