banak

noun

ba·​nak

ˈbäˌnäk

plural -s

: any of several Central American timber trees of the genus Virola (especially V. merendonia) extensively shipped from British Honduras

Word History

Etymology

perhaps borrowed from a Mayan language of Belize

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