limbaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

limba (plural limbas)

1. A large African tree, Terminalia superba, whose hard wood is used for furniture, table tennis paddles and musical instruments.
   • 1965, Theodore Geiger, editor, Agrifor and U.S. Plywood in the Congo, Issue 12, page 50:

     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.

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

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

   • 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:

     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].

同意語

• (Terminalia superba): afara

参照

• Irvine, F. R. (1961), Woody Plants of Ghana: With Special Reference to Their Uses‎, London: Oxford University Press, page 135

アナグラム

• mbila, milab