Dictionary

balata en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish balatá.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Manilkara bidentata, a large South American tree that yields latex and edible yellow berries.
   • ‘She tall like a balata tree, her skin black like midnight.’ 2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 215:
2. (countable, uncountable) The latex obtained from this tree.

Forms

Synonyms

cow-tree · bully tree · bulletwood · massaranduba · ausubo

Translations (22)

srm botii (tree) · fi balata (tree) · nl balata (tree) · arw burue (tree) · car parata (tree) · srm baatá (tree) · pt balata (latex) · pl balata (tree) · pl balata (latex) · fi balata (timber) · srn botri (tree) · nl bolletrie (tree) · arw kurero burue (tree) · pt maçaranduba (tree) · nl paardenvleeshout (timber) · djk boiti (tree) · srn balata (tree) · srn boletri (tree) · es balatá (tree) · arw balata burue (tree) · fr balata (tree) · pt balata (tree)