silverballi

plural silverballis

1. Any of various trees of the laurel family, used for their wood.

   It has the usual aromatic scent, more pronounced than in the other Silverballis.

   1946, Handbook of Natural Resources of British Guiana

   2 more examples

   kurokai (Protium), dalli (Virola), baromalli (Catostemma), locust [courbaril] (Hymenaea), bulletwood (Manilkara), crabwood (Carapa), the silverballis (Lauraceae of the genera Ocotea, Aniba, Nectandra and Licaria), simarupa (Simaruba) and red cedar [South American cedar] (Cedrela).

   1953, Colonial, numbers 291-295, H.M. Stationery Office

   Mora, simarupa, tauronira, wamara, silverballi, kabukalli, wallaba rolled off our tongues with the smoothness of the seeds we savoured.

   2018 December 6, Indranie Deolall, “Kit, kin and “kinnah””, in Stabroek News