limba

plural limbas

1. A large African tree, Terminalia superba, whose hard wood is used for furniture, table tennis paddles and musical instruments.

   Limba occurred in blocks a, c and d and varied from 0.1 to 0.6 exploitable trees per hectare on average.

   1991, Ján Borota, tropical forests: some African and Asian case studies of composition and structure, Elsevier, page 101

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   This was the wood of the limba tree — a native of the Mayumbe forest — from which is produced a beautifully grained, blond, high-quality veneer for plywood and other uses.

   1965, Theodore Geiger, editor, Agrifor and U.S. Plywood in the Congo, Issue 12, page 50

   Because of the decline of harvestable Limba trees in natural forests, a reforestation program was then undertaken by the government using local seed sources [5].

   1994, Richard C. Schultz, Joe P. Colletti, editors, Opportunities for Agroforestry in the Temperate Zone Worldwide: Proceedings of the Third North American Agroforestry Conference, page 242

   Synonyms: afara

1. An indigenous ethnic group of Sierra Leone making roughly twelve percent of the population.

   Among the largest of the other ethnic groups livings in Sierra Leone are the Limba—making up more than 6 percent of the population.

   2007, Suzanne LeVert, Cultures of the World: Sierra Leone, page 78

2. The Niger-Congo vernacular of the Limba; the Limba language.

   Synonyms: Hulimba