yvyra ñeti
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Guaraní
[edit]Etymology
[edit]yvyrá (“tree”) + ñetĩ (“fly, gnat”), reference to susceptibility to such borers once this tree falls down.[1]
Noun
[edit]- guatambu (Balfourodendron riedelianum); its wood susceptible to borers.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Spichiger, R., Stutz de Ortega, L. (1987) “Rutaceae”, in G.F. Bocquet (†) and M.R. Crosby, editors, Flora del Paraguay[1] (in Spanish), volume [8], Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Genève & Missouri Botanical Garden, Geneva & St. Louis, page 8
- ^ Walker, Aidan, editor (2005), The Encyclopedia of Wood, Quarto