pau-ferro
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: pau‧fer‧ro
Noun edit
pau-ferro m (plural paus-ferro or paus-ferros)
- ironwood (any of several trees characterised by particularly solid wood), including
- Brazilian ironwood (Libidibia ferrea)
- snake bean (Bobgunnia madagascariensis)
- trees of species Zollernia paraensis and Zollernia ilicifolia
- Ceylon ironwood (Mesua ferrea)