|  obeche 
 
 1. the wood of an African obeche tree;
 used especially for veneering
 • Hypernyms:
 wood
 2. large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds;
 yields soft white to pale yellow wood
 • Syn:
 obechi, arere, samba, Triplochiton scleroxcylon
 • Hypernyms:
 tree
 • Member Holonyms:
 Triplochiton, genus Triplochiton
 
 
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