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arariba

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
arari-ba
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the trees of three species in the genus Centrolobium (family Fabaceae), especially, a Brazilian tree (Centrolobium robustum) -- called also zebrawood.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Any of several trees of the genus Simira (syn. Sickingia), usually with heavy dark red wood.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Wood of an arariba tree.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese araribá, from Old Tupi.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

araribas (plural)

Synonyms

centrolobium robustum

Questions

What does arariba mean?
Any of the trees of three species in the genus Centrolobium (family Fabaceae), especially, a Brazilian tree (Centrolobium robustum) -- called also zebrawood.
Where does arariba come from?
It is traced to Portuguese.

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