gmelina

[gmel-uh-nuh, gmey-luh-]

noun

a deciduous tree, Gmelina arborea, native to Southeast Asia,whose timber is important in the tropics.

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I have seen women smoking cheroots, made from tobacco locally cultivated, wrapped up in a leaf of Gmelina arborea.
Castes and Tribes of Southern India
Edgar Thurston
Here and there a ragged Nauclea, Careya, etc. is visible with Gmelina arborea.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The
William Griffith
Among the trees, all which are stunted, Gmelina arborea occurs.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The
William Griffith