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wallaba

wallaba noun: a leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves, reddish-brown wood, and clusters of red flowers.

Noun

wallaba (plural wallabas)

  1. A leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves, reddish-brown wood, and clusters of red flowers.
    • The wild red sage is also their favourite shrub, and they buzz like bees round the blossom of the wallaba tree.1836, Charles Waterton, Wanderings in South America

Forms of wallaba

pluralwallabas

Questions about wallaba

What does wallaba mean?
Wallaba means a leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves, reddish-brown wood, and clusters of red flowers.
What part of speech is wallaba?
Wallaba is a noun.
What is the plural of wallaba?
The plural of wallaba is wallabas.

Words near wallaba in the dictionary

  1. wall-warts
  2. walla
  3. Walla Walla
  4. Walla Walla County
  5. Walla Wallas
  6. wallaba
  7. Wallabadah
  8. wallabas
  9. Wallabee
  10. Wallabi Point
  11. wallabies

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