A tropical South American tree of the legume family, valued for its hardwood timber and medicinal bark.
From indigenous Tupi language of Brazil, 'andira' is a direct borrowing that entered Portuguese and then English botanical terminology.
The andira tree wood is so dense it barely floats in water—indigenous peoples used it for tools, weapons, and canoe keels, and it's still prized today for furniture that lasts centuries.
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