calaba
IPA: kɑɫˈɑbʌ
noun
- west indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice
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Examples of "calaba" in Sentences
- Calophyllum calaba, five species of palm-trees (the palma real, or
- It has been mistaken for the _tacamahaca_ of India, which, however, is a product of the _C. calaba_, L.
- -- This is called calaba tree in the West Indies, and an oil, fit for burning, is expressed from the seeds.
- In the wetter areas the baría (Callophylum calaba), copey (Clusia rosea), mangle rojo (Rhizophora mangle), and mangle botón (Conocarpus erecta) predominate.
- Tliey have no diftruft, for they leave the doors of their huts always open, though they have cotton, calaba (hes, and a iort of aloes, of which they make thread, and feveral other fmall matters that they trade with, which might be eafily Itoleiw They go naked, and paint their bodies with a red drug, called rocu.