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burau

burau is the alternative form of burao.

Meaning of burao

Noun

burao (plural buraos)

  1. A tropical flowering tree, cottonwood hibiscus (Talipariti tiliaceum, syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus), found in the South Pacific.
    • Overhead was a thatch of buraos, and over these again palms brandished their bright fans, as I have seen a conjurer make himself a halo out of naked swords.1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, In the South Seas

Forms of burau

pluralburaus

Questions about burau

What is burau the alternative form of?
Burau is the alternative form of burao.

Words near burau in the dictionary

  1. buraos
  2. Buraq
  3. Buraq Wall
  4. Burarra
  5. Burarran
  6. burau
  7. Burauen
  8. buraus
  9. Buray
  10. burb
  11. Burba

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Adapted from Wiktionary: burau (page history and authors); burao (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.

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