seringa
Americannoun
noun
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any of several euphorbiaceous trees of the Brazilian genus Hevea, that yield rubber
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a deciduous simaroubaceous tree, Kirkia acuminata, of southern Africa with a graceful shape
Etymology
Origin of seringa
1730–40; < Portuguese, variant of syringa
Example Sentences
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The seringa, with its thickly trellised limbs, offered snug quarters.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Mayne Reid
He then covered the moulds to a sufficient thickness with the seringa juice, and dried them in the smoke as our shoes had been.
From The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by Perat
He reconnoitred them as he went by the low garden-fences, over which he could see the pretty lawns and flower-beds, with clusters of evergreens here and there, and a wealth of roses and seringa.
From Fenton's Quest by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
One of these he gave Richard, to hold under the tap while he made a second incision upon a longer limb of the seringa.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Mayne Reid
Selecting a spot on one of the larger limbs of the seringa, he made an incision in the bark, from which the milky juice immediately flowed.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Mayne Reid
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