A large South American tree that produces valuable hard wood and medicinal compounds, or the wood from this tree.
From Tupi or other indigenous Amazonian languages; the word entered European and scientific usage through Portuguese colonial documentation of South American resources.
The corupay tree represents one of humanity's oldest relationships with tropical forests—indigenous peoples have used it for hundreds of years for construction and medicine, yet modern science is still discovering its properties.
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