How To Use Courbaril In A Sentence
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Choose a tropical hardwood which is high in natural oil content like teak, iroko or courbaril.
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The mammee-tree and the genipa, * with large and shining leaves, raise their branches vertically towards the sky; whilst those of the courbaril and the erythrina form, as they extend, a thick canopy of verdure.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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_courbaril_, the mahogany, the _tedre-à-caillou_, the iron - wood ... but as well enumerate by name all the soldiers of an army!
Two Years in the French West Indies
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[* Thus, at five or six inches depth, between the roots of the Hymenea courbaril, masses of the resin anime (erroneously called copal) are discovered, and are sometimes mistaken for amber in inland places.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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India-rubber tree; the great courbaril, the "dragon's-blood" tree, not that celebrated tree of the East (_Draccena_), but one of a different genus (_Crotori_), from whose white bark flows a red blood-like juice.
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon
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(* Thus, at five or six inches depth, between the roots of the Hymenea courbaril, masses of the resin anime (erroneously called copal) are discovered, and are sometimes mistaken for amber in inland places.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
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The chairs are made of hard-wearing courbaril wood and have locking mechanisms to prevent them collapsing when drawn forwards.
Times, Sunday Times
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India-rubber tree; the great courbaril, the "dragon's-blood" tree, not that celebrated tree of the East but one of a different genus from whose white bark flows a red blood-like juice.
Popular Adventure Tales
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The trunks of the trees are everywhere concealed under a thick carpet of verdure; and if we carefully transplanted the orchideae, the pipers, and the pothoses, nourished by a single courbaril, or American fig-tree, * (* Ficus nymphaeifolia.) we should cover a vast extent of ground.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
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This painting is covered with a varnish of algarobo, which is the transparent resin of the Hymenaea courbaril.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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[* Thus, at five or six inches depth, between the roots of the Hymenea courbaril, masses of the resin anime (erroneously called copal) are discovered, and are sometimes mistaken for amber in inland places.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Hymenaea courbaril has large seeds with non-photosynthetic globoid cotyledons.
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The pods of the West India locust tree, _Hymenæa courbaril_, also supply a nutritious matter.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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The trunks of the trees are everywhere concealed under a thick carpet of verdure; and if we carefully transplanted the orchideae, the pipers, and the pothoses, nourished by a single courbaril, or American fig-tree, * we should cover a vast extent of ground.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
