limba
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.46 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A large African tree, Terminalia superba, whose hard wood is used for furniture, table tennis paddles and musical instruments.
Example Sentences
- "This was the wood of the limba tree — a native of the Mayumbe forest — from which is produced a beautifully grained, blond, high-quality veneer for plywood and other uses."
- "Limba occurred in blocks a, c and d and varied from 0.1 to 0.6 exploitable trees per hectare on average."
- "Because of the decline of harvestable Limba trees in natural forests, a reforestation program was then undertaken by the government using local seed sources [5]."