BALSA WOOD

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Meaning:

Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats

Synonyms:

balsa; balsa wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("balsa wood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("balsa wood" is a substance of...):

balsa; Ochroma lagopus (forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood; used for making floats and rafts and in crafts)