timbo

plural timbos

1. obsoletepossiblyThe pacara tree, Enterolobium contortisiliquum.

   The host is sometimes called the Timbo, but it is not the true Timbo, which is Enterolobium contortisiliquum.

   1894, New York Academy of Sciences, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, section on Plants Collected in Paraguay, page 216

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   Among the handsomest trees which I have met is the "Timbo" (Enterolobium timbosa), which grows sometimes to the height of [...]. Half a dozen other species of Enterolobium, all inferior to the Timbo, grow in the Paraguayan forests.

   1889, John Merle Coulter, M.S. Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Joseph Charles Arthur, Botanical Gazette, page 226

   At a short distance from the banks of the river Paraguay commences the forest exhibiting its red and white quebrachos, carob-trees, timbos, etcetera. The soil is very rich and in the clearings there are excellent pastures' ...

   1916, Alberto B. Martínez, Baedeker of the Argentine Republic

1. A diminutive of the male given name Timothy.