umburana

plural umburanas

1. A species of leguminous tree, Amburana cearensis, native to South America and often used for timber.

   Two calves frisked outside beneath the umburana tree.

   1972, Peggie Benton, One Man Against the Drylands

   2 more examples

   "For safety I maintained my distance from that ill-famed house and settled under an umburana tree at the curve of a road."

   1970, Josué de Castro, translated by Susan Hertelendy, Of Men and Crabs, page 102

   Once again he sees the landscape […] become a phantasmagoria, with strange human fruit hanging from the umburanas and the thornbushes, and boots, scabbards, tunics, kepis dangling from the branches.

   1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 343