silverballi

English

Noun

silverballi (plural silverballis)

1. Any of various trees of the laurel family, used for their wood.
   • 1946, Handbook of Natural Resources of British Guiana:

     It has the usual aromatic scent, more pronounced than in the other Silverballis.

   • 1953, Colonial, numbers 291-295, H.M. Stationery Office:

     kurokai (Protium), dalli (Virola), baromalli (Catostemma), locust [courbaril] (Hymenaea), bulletwood (Manilkara), crabwood (Carapa), the silverballis (Lauraceae of the genera Ocotea, Aniba, Nectandra and Licaria), simarupa (Simaruba) and red cedar [South American cedar] (Cedrela).

   • 2018 December 6, Indranie Deolall, “Kit, kin and “kinnah””, in Stabroek News‎^[1]:

     Mora, simarupa, tauronira, wamara, silverballi, kabukalli, wallaba rolled off our tongues with the smoothness of the seeds we savoured.