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Definition of Bella sombra
1. Noun. Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bella Sombra
Literary usage of Bella sombra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"The name of bella sombra on the other hand, in all Spain and Portugal, as also,
if I remember right, in the Canaries, is exclusively and constantly applied ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"... and "bella sombra" of Spanish-speaking people.—This species was intro.
into Santa Barbara some 40 years ago, and is now well distributed in S. Calif.; ..."
3. Sicily, the New Winter Resort: An Encyclopaedia of Sicily by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1907)
"bella sombra. The Spanish name used by Sicilians for the Japanese kiri, a tree
much used for avenues. Bellini, Vincenzo. Operatic composer, born at Catania, ..."
4. In the Trades, the Tropics, & the Roaring Forties by Annie Allnutt Brassey (1885)
"There are shady walks all about the garden, and a capital tennis court of concrete,
close by a magnificent Bella-Sombra tree, the huge roots of which have ..."
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