Word.ws English Dictionary

balata

balata noun: manilkara bidentata, a large South American tree that yields latex and edible yellow berries.

Noun

balata (countable and uncountable, plural balatas)

  1. 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. The latex obtained from this tree.

Synonyms of balata

All synonyms of balata

Forms of balata

pluralbalatas

Origin of balata

Borrowed from Spanish balatá.

Questions about balata

What does balata mean?
Balata means manilkara bidentata, a large South American tree that yields latex and edible yellow berries.
What part of speech is balata?
Balata is a noun.
What is the plural of balata?
The plural of balata is balatas.

Words near balata in the dictionary

  1. Balassa-Samuelson effects
  2. balasses
  3. Balasubramaniam
  4. Balasubramanian
  5. Balasubramanians
  6. balata
  7. Balatan
  8. Balatanay
  9. balatas
  10. Balatbat
  11. Balatin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: balata (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “balata.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/balata. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.