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Definitions of balsa in various dictionaries:
noun - strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats
noun - forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood
A tropical American tree (Ochroma pyramidale) having wood that is soft, very light in weight, and that is used as a substitute for cork in insulation, floats, and crafts such as model airplanes.
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| Possible Crossword Clues |
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| Kon-Tiki wood |
| Glider wood |
| Model airplane wood |
| Corkwood |
| Lightweight wood |
| Model's makeup? |
| Modeling wood |
| Model's makeup, maybe |
| Raft material |
| It's model material |
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| This light wood gets its name from the Spanish for "raft" because people in the tropics have used its logs for rafts |
| Thor Heyerdahl said Polynesians may have come from South America on rafts made of this wood |
| Ecuador is the largest producer of this light wood whose name is Spanish for "raft" |
| This light wood used to make toy airplanes was a standard material for surfboard manufacture through the 1950s |
| Thor Heyerdahl used the lightweight wood of this tree to build his Kon-Tiki raft |
| Ochroma pyramidale, this tree, yields a lightweight wood often used to make surfboards |
| Thor Heyerdahl's raft Kon-Tiki was made of this extremely lightweight wood |
| Also called corkwood, this light material was used by Thor Heyerdahl to build the Kon-Tiki raft |
| The lightest wood used commercially, it's used to build model airplanes & some kinds of buoys |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| very lightweight timber used chiefly for making models and rafts. |
| Very lightweight wood used chiefly for making models and rafts. |
| The fast-growing tropical American tree from which balsa is obtained. |
| forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood used for making floats and rafts and in crafts |
| strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats |
| A tropical American tree (Ochroma pyramidale) having wood that is soft, very light in weight, and that is used as a substitute for cork in insulation, floats, and crafts such as model airplanes. |
| The wood of this tree. Also called corkwood. |
| A raft consisting of a frame fastened to buoyant cylinders of wood or metal. |
| Balsa description |
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| Ochroma is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae, containing the sole species Ochroma pyramidale, commonly known as the balsa tree. It is a large, fast-growing tree that can grow up to 30 m (98 ft) tall. Balsa wood is a very lightweight material with many uses. Balsa trees are native to southern Brazil and northern Bolivia, up to southern Mexico. |
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