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balata

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Borrowed from Spanish balatá.

noun balatas

  1. countable, uncountable Manilkara bidentata, a large South American tree that yields latex and edible yellow berries. ‘She tall like a balata tree, her skin black like midnight.’

    Similar: ausubo, massaranduba, bulletwood, bully tree, cow-tree

  2. countable, uncountable The latex obtained from this tree.

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noun tree

Españolbalatá
Portuguêsbalata, maçaranduba
Françaisbalata

noun latex

Portuguêsbalata

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@misc{balata_2026,
  title = {balata},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/balata},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}