Portuguese

Proper noun

Massaranduba

1. Massaranduba (municipality in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil)

English

Noun

massaranduba ‎(plural massarandubas)

1. A tropical hardwood tree, Manilkara bidentata.
   • 1882, “A Vegetable Cow”, in The Iowa Normal Monthly, volume 6, page 422:

     The famous polo de vaca, or "cow-tree" of South America, called massaranduba by the natives, belongs to the natural order of the Atrocarpads, which, by what might appear a curious coincidence, includes also the celebrated bread-fruit.

   • 1884, Mayne Reid, Afloat in the Forest, Or, A Voyage Among the Tree-tops, page 157:

     The massaranduba is not the only species known as palo de vaca, or cow-tree. There are many others so called, whose sap is of a milky nature.

   • 2005, Arthur O. Friel, Amazon Nights: Classic Adventure Tales from the Pulps, page 97:

     Then the huge reddish trunks of massarandubas began to slide past us, their lofty crowns matting together so thickly that they seemed to make a solid roof.

Synonyms

• bulletwood
• cow-tree
• balatá
• ausubo