An alternative or regional name for the ailanthus tree, sometimes used in Spanish or Portuguese-speaking regions.
Spanish and Portuguese variant of ailanthus, showing how the word adapted as trade brought the tree to different parts of the world. The -o ending is common in Romance language nouns.
Language names for the same thing show up constantly in botany—the 'tree of heaven' has different names everywhere it grows because it arrived through different trade routes and cultural contexts!
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