umburana

English

Etymology

From Portuguese umburana.

Noun

umburana (plural umburanas)

1. A species of leguminous tree, Amburana cearensis, native to South America and often used for timber.
   • 1970, Josué de Castro, translated by Susan Hertelendy, Of Men and Crabs, page 102:

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

   • 1972, Peggie Benton, One Man Against the Drylands:

     Two calves frisked outside beneath the umburana tree.

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

     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.