timbo
Noun
The pacara tree, Enterolobium contortisiliquum.
Usage- Obsolete
- possibly
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Among the handsomest trees which I have met is the "Timbo" (Enterolobium timbosa), which grows sometimes to the height of [...]. Half a dozen other species of Enterolobium, all inferior to the Timbo, grow in the Paraguayan forests.
The host is sometimes called the Timbo, but it is not the true Timbo, which is Enterolobium contortisiliquum.
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At a short distance from the banks of the river Paraguay commences the forest exhibiting its red and white quebrachos, carob-trees, timbos, etcetera. The soil is very rich and in the clearings there are excellent pastures' ...
Word forms
timbos