[? a. native name.] A large South American timber-tree (Eperua falcata). Also attrib., as wallaba oil, tree.
1825. Waterton, Wand. S. Amer., I. (1903), 17. Here the … wallaba, purple-heart,… and mora, are met with in vast abundance.
1845. Lindley, Veg. Kingd. (1846), 550. Eperua falcata is the Wallaba-tree of Guiana.
1862. List Contrib. fr. B. Guiana to Lond. Exhib., in Veness, El Dorado (1866), App. 122. Wallaba Oil. Ibid., 137. Wallaba…. Used for house-frames, shingles, staves, palings, and posts. Yields an oil and gum resin having medicinal properties.
1871. Kingsley, At Last, vii. I passed the great Australian Blue-Gum which overhangs the road, and the Wallaba-tree.
