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BALATA TREE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does balata tree mean?
• BALATA TREE (noun)
The noun BALATA TREE has 1 sense:
1. a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
Familiarity information: BALATA TREE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
balata; balata tree; beefwood; bully tree; Manilkara bidentata
Hypernyms ("balata tree" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Meronyms (substance of "balata tree"):
balata; gutta balata (when dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls)
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