timbo

See also: Timbó

English

Etymology

Noun

timbo (plural timbos)

(possibly obsolete) The pacara tree, Enterolobium contortisiliquum.
- 1889, John Merle Coulter, M.S. Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Joseph Charles Arthur, Botanical Gazette, page 226:
  Among the handsomest trees which I have met is the "Timbo" (Enterolobium timbosa), which grows sometimes to the height of [...]. Half a dozen other species of Enterolobium, all inferior to the Timbo, grow in the Paraguayan forests.
- 1894, New York Academy of Sciences, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, section on Plants Collected in Paraguay, page 216:
  The host is sometimes called the Timbo, but it is not the true Timbo, which is Enterolobium contortisiliquum.
- 1916, Alberto B. Martínez, Baedeker of the Argentine Republic:
  At a short distance from the banks of the river Paraguay commences the forest exhibiting its red and white quebrachos, carob-trees, timbos, etcetera. The soil is very rich and in the clearings there are excellent pastures' ...

Guaraní

Noun

timbo

smoke

Portuguese

timbo

Alternative forms

jimbo, timba

Etymology

Borrowed from Kimbundu jimbo.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃĩ.bu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃĩ.bo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtĩ.bu/

Rhymes: -ĩbu
Hyphenation: tim‧bo

Noun

timbo m (plural timbos)

(Angola, Mozambique) aardvark (Orycteropus afer, a mammal)
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:orictéropo

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