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tatane

tatane noun: a South American tree, also called the palo amarillo or tatare, which has a piquant juice in its bark used for dyeing, and golden yellow wood good for carpentry.

Noun

tatane

  1. (obsolete, possibly) A South American tree, also called the palo amarillo or tatare, which has a piquant juice in its bark used for dyeing, and golden yellow wood good for carpentry.
    • Of the same family is the pacara, equally rapid in growth ; both produce a fruit which serves for making soap. The tatane, or palo amarillo, is a large mimosa, well suited for making furniture. Cedars, red as well as white, flourish in the warmer ...1885, Michael George Mulhall, Edward T. Mulhall, Handbook of the River Plate, Comprising the Argentine Republic, Uruguay and Paraguay: With Railway Map, page 8
    • Growing with or near the sebil, we find the two cedars, the white and the pink; the lapaccio, that we have remarked likewise in the sub-zone of the urunday, the walnut, the laurel, the tatane, the pacara, the mulberry, the tipa, the male oak,...1886, Juan Pelleschi, Eight Months on the Gran Chaco of the Argentine Republic, London: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, page 247

Questions about tatane

What does tatane mean?
Tatane means a South American tree, also called the palo amarillo or tatare, which has a piquant juice in its bark used for dyeing, and golden yellow wood good for carpentry.
What part of speech is tatane?
Tatane is a noun.

Words near tatane in the dictionary

  1. tatami
  2. tatamied
  3. tatamis
  4. Tatan
  5. Tatanagar
  6. tatane
  7. Tataouine
  8. Tatar
  9. Tatar Yoke
  10. tatara
  11. tatarara

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