English noun: obeche | |||
1. | obeche (plant) the wood of an African obeche tree; used especially for veneering | ||
Broader (hypernym) | wood | ||
2. | obeche (plant) large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood | ||
Synonyms | arere, obechi, samba, Triplochiton scleroxcylon | ||
Broader (hypernym) | tree | ||
Member meronym | genus Triplochiton, Triplochiton | ||