Santa Maria tree

Santa Maria tree
noun
West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice
Syn: ↑calaba, ↑Calophyllum calaba
Hypernyms: ↑tree
Member Holonyms: ↑Calophyllum, ↑genus Calophyllum

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\\|santəmə|rēə-\ noun
Usage: usually capitalized S&M
Etymology: santa maria from Spanish, from Santa Maria St. Mary
: an evergreen tropical American tree (Calophyllum calaba) that yields a durable straight close-grained timber and a fluid balsam like copaiba — called also calaba

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