tappan
tappan noun: an emergent tropical rainforest tree, Koompassia excelsa, family Fabaceae, of Southeast Asia.
Noun
tappan (plural tappans)
- An emergent tropical rainforest tree, Koompassia excelsa, family Fabaceae, of Southeast Asia.
- The honey-bee of Borneo very generally hangs its combs under the branches of the Tappan, a tree which towers above all others in the forest, and whose smooth cylindrical trunk often rises a hundred feet without a branch.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 125
- Two minutes more, and the top-knot of the lofty tappan before the house was thrashing the reeds out of the thatch—there was a shriek as of a thousand buzz-saws—a fusillade of branches and pebbles—and the squall had gone yelling away into the east.1894 January 6, The Bulletin, Sydney, page 22, column 2
Proper noun capitalized: Tappan
Tappan (plural Tappans)
- A surname.
Forms of tappan
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tappans |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Tappans |
Origin of tappan
From Malay tapang.
Questions about tappan
- What does tappan mean?
- Tappan means an emergent tropical rainforest tree, Koompassia excelsa, family Fabaceae, of Southeast Asia.
- What part of speech is tappan?
- Tappan can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of tappan?
- The plural of tappan is tappans.
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