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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Portuguese araribá, from Old Tupi.

Noun edit

arariba (countable and uncountable, plural araribas)

  1. Any of the trees of three species in the genus Centrolobium (family Fabaceae), especially, a Brazilian tree (Centrolobium robustum) -- called also zebrawood.
  2. Any of several trees of the genus Simira (syn. Sickingia), usually with heavy dark red wood.
  3. Wood of an arariba tree.

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for Centrolobium

for Sickingia

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Noun edit

arariba f (plural araribas)

  1. Alternative form of araribá