資料來源 : pyDict
橡皮樹,橡膠
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Balata \Bal"a*ta\, n. [Sp., prob. fr. native name.]
1. A West Indian sapotaceous tree ({Bumelia retusa}).
2. The bully tree ({Minusops globosa}); also, its milky juice
({); also, its milky juice (}), which when dried
constitutes an elastic gum called {chicle}, or {chicle
gum}.
資料來源 : WordNet®
balata
n 1: when dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls
[syn: {gutta balata}]
2: a hard-wooded tropical tree yielding balata gum and heavy
red timber [syn: {balata tree}, {beefwood}, {bully tree},
{Manilkara bidentata}]