Meaning of tatane | Babel Free

Definitions

A South American tree, also called the palo amarillo or tatare, which has a piquant juice in its bark used for dyeing, and golden yellow wood good for carpentry.

obsolete, possibly

Equivalents

Examples

“Of the same family is the pacara, equally rapid in growth ; both produce⟳ a fruit which serves for making soap. The tatane, or palo amarillo, is a large mimosa, well suited for making furniture. Cedars, red as well as white, flourish in the warmer ...”

“Growing with or near the sebil, we find⟳ the two cedars, the white and the pink; the lapaccio, that we have⟳ remarked likewise in the sub-zone of the urunday, the walnut, the laurel, the tatane, the pacara, the mulberry, the tipa, the male oak,...”

“... the tatane is golden yellow; the pacara is dark red; the molle is black-brown; the lapacho is green, gray and black; the guayabo is deep red, veined with black and yellow; the palo ribera is dark cinnamon with red veins; the guayacan is black ...”

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