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Wallaba. World English Historical Dictionary

Wallaba. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Wallaba [? a. native name.] A large South American timber-tree (Eperua falcata). Also attrib., as wallaba oil, tree.

1 1825.  Waterton, Wand. S. Amer., I. (1903), 17. Here the … wallaba, purple-heart,… and mora, are met with in vast abundance.

2 1845.  Lindley, Veg. Kingd. (1846), 550. Eperua falcata is the Wallaba-tree of Guiana.

3 1862.  List 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.

4 1871.  Kingsley, At Last, vii. I passed the great Australian Blue-Gum which overhangs the road, and the Wallaba-tree.

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