A large almond tree or the timber from such a tree, particularly used in Spanish and Portuguese contexts.
Spanish and Portuguese word from Latin 'amygdalus' (almond tree), which came from Greek 'amygdale.' The Iberian languages added their characteristic '-ro' suffix meaning 'tree,' making it 'amígdalo' which evolved into 'almendro.'
Almond timber is extremely hard and beautiful, making it prized for furniture and decorative objects in Spanish colonial furniture—yet almonds themselves were originally from Central Asia and only reached Iberia through Arab expansion during the medieval period.
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