Word.ws English Dictionary

blea

blea noun: the part of a tree that lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.

Noun

blea (uncountable)

  1. The part of a tree that lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.
    • Authors differ greatly in opinion concerning the formation of the blea. Linnaeus imagined it was formed by the bark. But it is certain that the whole of the bark does not give birth to the blea […]1814, Benjamin Smith Barton, Elements of Botany

Proper noun capitalized: Blea

Blea (plural Bleas)

  1. A surname.

Forms of blea

pluralBleas

Origin of blea

* As an English surname, variant of Blighe. Compare Blee. * As a Galician surname, variant of Brea.

Questions about blea

What does blea mean?
Blea means the part of a tree that lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.
What part of speech is blea?
Blea can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near blea in the dictionary

  1. bldgs
  2. bldr
  3. bldrs
  4. BLDSC
  5. BLE
  6. blea
  7. Blea Moor
  8. bleaberries
  9. bleaberry
  10. bleach
  11. bleach bypass

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: blea (page history and authors); Blea (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: “blea.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/blea. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.