|  balsa 
 
 1. strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats
 • Syn:
 balsa wood
 • Hypernyms:
 wood
 • Substance Holonyms:
 Ochroma lagopus
 2. forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood;
 used for making floats and rafts and in crafts
 • Syn:
 Ochroma lagopus
 • Hypernyms:
 angiospermous tree, flowering tree
 • Member Holonyms:
 Ochroma, genus Ochroma
 • Substance Meronyms:
 balsa wood
 
 
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