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guayabi

guayabi noun: a large, frond-bearing South American tree, Cordia americana, or its valuable wood.

Noun

guayabi

  1. A large, frond-bearing South American tree, Cordia americana, or its valuable wood.
    • [...] one of them [park rangers] stoked up a fire of dry wood and guayabi fronds to create the smoke signal [...] when Beeker and Foster first arrived on the site last year, it was so densely overgrown with guayabi and ferns and spindly tropical trees that they came within inches of accidentally...2004, Bill Belleville, Sunken Cities, Sacred Cenotes & Golden Sharks, →ISBN, pages 19–20

Forms of guayabi

alternative formguayavi

Origin of guayabi

From American Spanish [Term?], from Paraguayan Guarani [Term?].

Questions about guayabi

What does guayabi mean?
Guayabi means a large, frond-bearing South American tree, Cordia americana, or its valuable wood.
What part of speech is guayabi?
Guayabi is a noun.

Words near guayabi in the dictionary

  1. Guay
  2. guayaba
  3. guayabas
  4. guayabera
  5. guayaberas
  6. guayabi
  7. guayabo
  8. guayabos
  9. guayacan
  10. guayacans
  11. Guayama

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