abura

English

Borrowed from Yoruba abùrà.

abura (plural aburas)

Any tree of species of genus Mitragyna:
1. A medium-sized tropical African tree, Mitragyna stipulosa (syn. M. macrophylla, nom. illeg.), from the family Rubiaceae.^[1]^[2][First attested in the mid 20^th century.]^[3]
2. A large-sized tropical African tree, Mitragyna ledermannii (syn. Mitragyna ciliata)^[4]
The soft pale wood from the abura tree. [First attested in the mid 20^th century.]^[3]

Mitragyna stipulosa

Mitragyna ledermannii

^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 8
^ Govaerts, R. et al. (2021). World Checklist of Rubiaceae. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; https://wcsp.science.kew.org/namedetail.do?name_id=128806 Retrieved 19 March 2021
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abura”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.
^ Walker, Aidan (1989, 2005) The Encyclopedia of Wood: A Tree-by-tree Guide to the World's Most Versatile Resource, Quarto

Irvine, F. R. (1961) Woody Plants of Ghana: With Special Reference to Their Uses‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press, pages 685, 838

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abura

From Japanese あぶら (abura, “oil”).

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真田信治 [Shinji Sanada] (2015) “宜蘭クレオールにおけるsound substitutionについて [On the sound substitution of Yilan Creole]”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[2]