|
|
Definition of Imbauba
1. Noun. Tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems.
Group relationships: Cecropia, Genus Cecropia
Generic synonyms: Angiospermous Tree, Flowering Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imbauba
Literary usage of Imbauba
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"But this alone would not serve to protect the imbauba from the leaf cutters, for
how could the Aztecs dwelling inside the tree know of the presence of the ..."
2. Comparative Studies in the Psychology of Ants and of Higher Animals by Erich Wasmann (1905)
"Several of these plants, at> the American imbauba (Cecropia ... s) Fritz
Mueller, "Die imbauba und ihre Beschuetzer" ("Kosmos," Vili, 109), and AFW Schimper ..."
3. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft by Medizinisch-naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft zu Jena (1876)
"Belt gedenkt bei dieser Gelegenheit auch der imbauba (Cecropia). ... die im Stamm
der imbauba hausenden Ameisen als treue Wacht und schützendes Heer dienen. ..."
4. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"Fritz Miiller has given a brief account, under the name of the imbauba ant, of
a Brazilian arboreal ant, that forms small nests in the interior of plants. ..."
Other Resources:
