bulletwood
See also: bullet wood
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From bullet + wood, presumably from its hardness.
Noun
bulletwood (countable and uncountable, plural bulletwoods)
- A tropical hardwood tree of species Manilkara bidentata, grown commercially in Puerto Rico.
- Synonyms: ausubo, balata, bully tree, massaranduba, cow-tree
- The timber of this tree.
- A flowering tree, Spanish cherry or medlar (Mimusops elengi), whose flowers are used in Thai herbal medicine.
Translations
Manilkara bidentata — see balata
Mimusops elengi
References
- bulletwood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “bulletwood”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “bulletwood”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.