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Definition of Balsa
1. Noun. Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats.
2. Noun. Forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood; used for making floats and rafts and in crafts.
Group relationships: Genus Ochroma, Ochroma
Terms within: Balsa Wood
Generic synonyms: Angiospermous Tree, Flowering Tree
Definition of Balsa
1. n. A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.
Definition of Balsa
1. Noun. A large tree, ''Ochroma lagopus'', native to tropical America, with wood that is very light in weight. ¹
2. Noun. The wood of this tree. ¹
3. Noun. A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Balsa
1. a tropical tree [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Balsa
Literary usage of Balsa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also, Lives of Distinguished by Henry Howe (1856)
"The " balsa," which is especially employed on the coasts of South America ...
The manager of the balsa sits well forward, with his passengers or goods close ..."
2. Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also, Lives of Distinguished by Henry Howe, New York Museum of Science and Industry Library (1852)
"The balsa will easily carry three passengers besides the person who guides it,
and is employed in landing the cargoes from merchant vessels where the ..."
3. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1882)
"For a moment its princes of the house of balsa spread their power over all northern
Albania ; but the new state was cut short on all sides by Bosnia, ..."
4. Extracts from a Journal: Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico by Basil Hall (1825)
"I had been told that ships' boats seldom succeeded in crossing the surf, and that
the balsa, or canoe of the country, was the proper thing to use; ..."
5. Harvard African Studies by African Dept (1917)
"One more step — that of binding permanently together three, instead of two,
cigar-shaped bundles of reeds — and the balsa, as found today on the Upper Nile ..."
6. Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas by W. Hastings Macaulay (1852)
"UP betimes upon the morning of our second day on shore, for a drive to the balsa.
The word, in English, means pool or raft, and the road over which we drove ..."
7. Two years in Peru, with exploration of its antiquities by Thomas Joseph Hutchinson (1873)
"To land at San Jose", the safest mode, be it from steamer or sailing-ship, is in
a balsa—the same kind of craft that Prescott tells us the Indians of the ..."
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