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Meaning of bilian | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. A hardwood tree, Eusideroxylon zwageri, of Malaysia, Borneo, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
  2. The timber of this tree, impervious to white-ants.

Examples

“With forests of bilian - a wood which is used all over the East for similar purposes - within a few days' sail of Port Darwin, in British North Borneo, it is strange that a market at such a distance was selected, more especially as it would have benefited both countries to have had some interchange of trade.”

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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