silverballi
English
Noun
silverballi (plural silverballis)
- Any of various trees of the laurel family, used for their wood.
- 1946, Handbook of Natural Resources of British Guiana:
- It has the usual aromatic scent, more pronounced than in the other Silverballis.
- 1953, Colonial, number 291-295, H.M. Stationery Office:
- kurokai (Protium), dalli (Virola), baromalli (Catostemma), locust [courbaril] (Hymenaea), bulletwood (Manilkara), crabwood (Carapa), the silverballis (Lauraceae of the genera Ocotea, Aniba, Nectandra and Licaria), simarupa (Simaruba) and red cedar [South American cedar] (Cedrela).
- 2018 December 6, Indranie Deolall, “Kit, kin and “kinnah””, in Stabroek News:
- Mora, simarupa, tauronira, wamara, silverballi, kabukalli, wallaba rolled off our tongues with the smoothness of the seeds we savoured.