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bilian

bilian noun: a hardwood tree, Eusideroxylon zwageri, of Malaysia, Borneo, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

Noun

bilian (uncountable)

  1. A hardwood tree, Eusideroxylon zwageri, of Malaysia, Borneo, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
    • With forests of bilian - a wood which is used all over the East for similar purposes - within a few days' sail of Port Darwin, in British North Borneo, it is strange that a market at such a distance was selected, more especially as it would have benefited both countries to have had some interchange...1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 272
  2. The timber of this tree, impervious to white-ants.

Origin of bilian

Borrowed from Malay belian.

Questions about bilian

What does bilian mean?
Bilian means a hardwood tree, Eusideroxylon zwageri, of Malaysia, Borneo, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
What part of speech is bilian?
Bilian is a noun.

Words near bilian in the dictionary

  1. Bili ape
  2. Bili apes
  3. bili light
  4. bili-
  5. Biliaivka
  6. bilian
  7. biliaries
  8. biliary
  9. biliary fever
  10. biliary sludge
  11. biliary tract

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