courbaril
(ˈkʊəbərɪl)
[Native American name.]
The West Indian Locust-tree, Hymenæa courbaril (family Leguminosæ), a common tree of tropical South America; also the resin obtained from it (called also animé).
| 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Hymenæa, in botany, the name of a genus of plants, first described by Plumier under the name of courbaril. 1828 Webster, Courbaril, gum anime, which flows from the Hymenæa..used for varnishing. 1852 Th. Ross tr. Humboldt's Trav. I vi. 216 The orchideæ, the pipers, and the pothoses, nourished by a single courbaril, or American fig-tree. |