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{
"ref": "1965, Theodore Geiger, editor, Agrifor and U.S. Plywood in the Congo, Issue 12, page 50",
"text": "This was the wood of the limba tree — a native of the Mayumbe forest — from which is produced a beautifully grained, blond, high-quality veneer for plywood and other uses.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1991, Ján Borota, tropical forests: some African and Asian case studies of composition and structure, Elsevier, page 101",
"text": "Limba occurred in blocks a, c and d and varied from 0.1 to 0.6 exploitable trees per hectare on average.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1994, Richard C. Schultz, Joe P. Colletti, editors, Opportunities for Agroforestry in the Temperate Zone Worldwide: Proceedings of the Third North American Agroforestry Conference, page 242",
"text": "Because of the decline of harvestable Limba trees in natural forests, a reforestation program was then undertaken by the government using local seed sources [5].",
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"A large African tree, Terminalia superba, whose hard wood is used for furniture, table tennis paddles and musical instruments."
],
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"furniture",
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[
"table tennis",
"table tennis"
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[
"paddle",
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[
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"musical instrument"
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"sense": "Terminalia superba",
"word": "afara"
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"code": "ak",
"lang": "Akan",
"sense": "Terminalia superba",
"word": "ɔfram"
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"code": "any",
"lang": "Anyi",
"sense": "Terminalia superba",
"word": "frake"
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"code": "bci",
"lang": "Baoule",
"sense": "Terminalia superba",
"word": "tra"
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{
"code": "ee",
"lang": "Ewe",
"sense": "Terminalia superba",
"word": "kɛgblale"
},
{
"code": "ee",
"lang": "Ewe",
"sense": "Terminalia superba",
"word": "afɔɖɔnkɔ"
},
{
"code": "ee",
"lang": "Ewe",
"sense": "Terminalia superba",
"word": "frangɔ"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Terminalia superba",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "fraké"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Terminalia superba",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "limba"
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"code": "gaa",
"lang": "Ga",
"sense": "Terminalia superba",
"word": "ofram"
},
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "rinba",
"sense": "Terminalia superba",
"word": "リンバ"
},
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"sense": "Terminalia superba",
"word": "アファラ"
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"sense": "Terminalia superba",
"word": "frane"
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"code": "wss",
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"sense": "Terminalia superba",
"word": "ɔfram"
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{
"code": "yom",
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"sense": "Terminalia superba",
"word": "ndimba"
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{
"code": "yo",
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"sense": "Terminalia superba",
"word": "afàrà"
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]
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"feminine"
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"ipa": "[ˈlɪmba]"
},
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"rhymes": "-ɪtsɛ"
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"g3": "",
"id": "",
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"sort": "",
"tr": "",
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{
"word": "faedhónzu"
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"word": "faedhóngiu"
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"word": "faedhada"
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{
"word": "prallata"
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"categories": [
"Tok Pisin entries with incorrect language header",
"Tok Pisin lemmas",
"Tok Pisin nouns",
"Tok Pisin terms borrowed from Malay",
"Tok Pisin terms derived from Malay"
],
"glosses": [
"valley"
],
"links": [
[
"valley",
"valley"
]
]
}
],
"word": "limba"
}
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