arariba

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Portuguese araribá, from Old Tupi. === Noun === arariba (countable and uncountable, plural araribas) Any of the trees of three species in the genus Centrolobium (family Fabaceae), especially, a Brazilian tree (Centrolobium robustum) -- called also zebrawood. Any of several trees of the genus Simira (syn. Sickingia), usually with heavy dark red wood. Wood of an arariba tree. ==== Translations ==== === References === for Centrolobium http://www.thefreedictionary.com/arariba https://web.archive.org/web/20051023032822/http://www.arvores.brasil.nom.br/florin/arariba.htm http://www.ildis.org/LegumeWeb for Sickingia https://web.archive.org/web/20051228154900/http://www2.fpl.fs.fed.us/TechSheets/Chudnoff/TropAmerican/html_files/sickin1new.html Simira on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Simira on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Sickingia at The Plant List == Portuguese == === Noun === arariba f (plural araribas) alternative form of araribá === Further reading === “arariba”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “arariba”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026