A Philippine tree yielding timber and traditional medicine materials.
From Tagalog 'alintatao', an indigenous Philippine plant name. Entered English through Spanish colonial records and botanical documentation of Filipino resources.
Philippine plant names like 'alintatao' encode deep ecological knowledge—traditional healers knew which trees healed specific ailments centuries before pharmacology could explain why.
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