bulletwood

See also: bullet wood

English

bulletwood (Manilkara bidentata)

bulletwood (Mimusops elengi)

Alternative forms

• bullet wood

Etymology

From bullet +‎ wood, presumably from its hardness.

Noun

bulletwood (countable and uncountable, plural bulletwoods)

1. A tropical hardwood tree of species Manilkara bidentata, grown commercially in Puerto Rico.
2. The timber of this tree.
3. A flowering tree, Spanish cherry or medlar (Mimusops elengi), whose flowers are used in Thai herbal medicine.

Synonyms

• bully tree

Translations

Manilkara bidentata

• Finnish: balata

timber of this tree

• Finnish: balata

Mimusops elengi

• Bengali: বকুল (bn) (bokul), মধুপুষ্প (bn) (modhupuśpo)
• Burmese: ခရေ (my) (hka.re)
• Finnish: intianbaulapuu
• Gujarati: બકુલ n (bakul)
• Indonesian: tanjung (id)
• Japanese: ミサキノハナ (misaki-no-hana)
• Telugu: పొగడచెట్టు (pogaḍaceṭṭu), వకుళము (te) (vakuḷamu)

References

• bulletwood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “bulletwood”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “bulletwood”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.