A type of South American tree or its wood, used in construction and traditional crafts.
From Tupi or other Indigenous South American languages, borrowed into Portuguese and Spanish. The word reflects the linguistic contact between European colonizers and native peoples of South America.
Many tree names in English come directly from indigenous languages—aramu is one of thousands of plant species discovered by Europeans in the Americas whose names were borrowed directly from the people who already knew and used them for centuries.
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