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Definition of Balata
1. Noun. When dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls.
Substance meronyms: Balata Tree, Beefwood, Bully Tree, Manilkara Bidentata
Generic synonyms: Gum
2. Noun. A tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber.
Terms within: Gutta Balata
Generic synonyms: Tree
Definition of Balata
1. n. A West Indian sapotaceous tree (Bumelia retusa).
Definition of Balata
1. a tropical tree [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Balata
Literary usage of Balata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Druggist (1891)
"Regarding the character and value of balata, Mr. Jenman says its strength is very
great; and as it does not stretch under tension for special appliances, ..."
2. Belt Conveyors and Belt Elevators by Frederic Valerius Hetzel (1922)
"The duck is generally of a closer weave than that used for rubber belts; in some
balata belts it weighs 28 to 32 ounces per square yard, but as made for ..."
3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"The latex of balata trees usually flows freely, and, in favourable circumstances,
the yield from a tree 15—20 inches in diameter, tapped to a height of 8 ..."
4. Technical Methods of Chemical Analysis by Georg Lunge (1914)
"The valuable constituent of balata is a hydrocarbon resembling ... The laboratory
methods applicable to balata are precisely the same as for gutta-percha. ..."
5. Venezuela: A Commercial and Industrial Handbook with a Chapter on the Dutch by Purl Lord Bell (1922)
"Exports of balata from all Venezuela for four more recent years have been: 1916,
626 metric tons (1 metric ton=2205 pounds), ..."
6. Archæology and the Bible by George Aaron Barton (1916)
"84 (January- March, 1917), a brief statement of the discoveries on Ophel and at
balata. He mentions the finding on Ophel of a tower with rock-cut ..."
7. Martinique & Guadeloupe Alive! by Lynne M. Sullivan (2001)
"HIGHLIGHTS: The Eglise de balata, a church styled after the Sacre-Coeur in Paris;
Jardin de balata, a botanical garden; Gorges de la Falaise, a waterfall; ..."
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