guayabi

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noun

A large, frond-bearing South American tree, Cordia americana, or its valuable wood.

OriginSpanish [Term?] ← Paraguayan Guarani [Term?] →
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Meanings

noun

alternative guayavi

  1. A large, frond-bearing South American tree, Cordia americana, or its valuable wood.
    1 more example

    [...] one of them [park rangers] stoked up a fire of dry wood and guayabi fronds to create the smoke signal [...] when Beeker and Foster first arrived on the site last year, it was so densely overgrown with guayabi and ferns and spindly tropical trees that they came within inches of accidentally stepping into the holes.

    2004, Bill Belleville, Sunken Cities, Sacred Cenotes & Golden Sharks, →ISBN, pages 19–20

Origin

  1. Paraguayan Guarani[Term?]
  2. Spanish[Term?]
  3. Englishguayabi

From American Spanish [Term?], from Paraguayan Guarani [Term?].

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APA

guayabi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guayabi

MLA

“guayabi.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guayabi. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “guayabi,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guayabi.

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