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imbé

imbé noun: a South American liana, Philodendron imbe.

imbé: a South American liana, Philodendron imbe
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Noun

imbé (plural imbés)

  1. A South American liana, Philodendron imbe.
    • Many vessels were built there; and the principal exports were wood and cordage, made of the imbé.1819, Robert Southey, chapter XLIV, in History of Brazil, 3rd part, London: […] [William Pople] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], →OCLC, page 862
    • In Brazil there are at least six very different species of this family. […] The straight ropes on the right are the air-roots of the imbé; […]1875, Franz Keller, The Amazon and Madeira Rivers: Sketches and Descriptions from the Note-book of an Explorer

Examples of imbé in a sentence

  • On the trees around, too, were many beautiful orchids and lianas, among which the rope-like roots of the large-leaved imbé attracted my attention; […]1883, Mary Hayden Pike, Ida May, by Mary Langdon, ed. by an English clergyman, page 350:
  • Enthroned in the crown, a stately imbé, in the axils leafy bromelia with their gorgeous flowers, along the branches[…].1940, Hanna Rydh, Argentine to Andes, page 20:
  • Their long bows are all veneered with bark from imbé lianas and their arrows are made of a wood of great elasticity and worked so well that they look machine-made.1987, John Hemming, Amazon Frontier: The Defeat of the Brazilian Indians, page 449:

Forms of imbé

pluralimbés

Origin of imbé

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese imbé, from Tupian.

Questions about imbé

What does imbé mean?
Imbé means a South American liana, Philodendron imbe.
How do you use imbé in a sentence?
On the trees around, too, were many beautiful orchids and lianas, among which the rope-like roots of the large-leaved imbé attracted my attention; […]
What part of speech is imbé?
Imbé is a noun.
What is the plural of imbé?
The plural of imbé is imbés.

Words near imbé in the dictionary

  1. imburses
  2. imbursing
  3. imburthen
  4. imbution
  5. imbuzeiro
  6. imbé
  7. imbés
  8. IMC
  9. IMCC
  10. imciromab
  11. IMCR

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