A type of hard palm wood from South America, used in making tools, weapons, and other implements.
From Spanish chonta, of indigenous South American origin, likely from Quechua or another Andean language. The word entered European languages through Spanish colonial contact.
Chonta wood is incredibly hard and dense—indigenous peoples in the Amazon used it for spear points and tools before contact with Europeans, making it one of nature's finest woods for precision work.
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