A large South American tree or the timber it produces, related to the mahogany family and valued for furniture and construction.
From Portuguese or Spanish colonial terms for Amazonian timbers. The word reflects how European traders adopted indigenous names for valuable tropical hardwoods they encountered in South America.
Cassabully wood is so dense and hard that it was historically used for ship-building in the age of sail—it could withstand cannon fire better than most European hardwoods, making it a strategic material in maritime empires.
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