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Definition of Balsa wood
1. Noun. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Balsa Wood
Literary usage of Balsa wood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Inheriting the Earth; Or, The Geographical Factor in National Development by Oscar Diedrich Engeln (1922)
"The whole of the trunk wood is, volume for volume, only about one half as heavy
as cork.1 balsa wood has only recently been exploited on a considerable ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1885)
"Balsa-Wood.—This wood, celebrated for its extreme lightness, and therefore ...
Balsa- wood, when dry, weighs about thirteen pounds to the cubic foot, ..."
3. Report of the War Trade Board by United States War Trade Board (1920)
"(balsa wood excepted Nov. 13, 1918. For restrictions on balsa wood, see following
item) Oct. 26,1918: Importation permitted from Canada by any means of ..."
4. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"vegetable ivory and balsa wood. The petroleum Is insufficient to meet the whole
of Ecuador's ... Other exports arc rice, balsa wood, castor-oil seeds, hats, ..."
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