BALATA
\balˈɑːtə], \balˈɑːtə], \b_a_l_ˈɑː_t_ə]\
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when dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls
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a hard-wooded tropical tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
By Princeton University
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when dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls
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a hard-wooded tropical tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A West Indian sapotaceous tree (Bumelia retusa).
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The bully tree (Minusops globosa); also, its milky juice (balata gum), which when dried constitutes an elastic gum called chicle, or chicle gum.
By Oddity Software
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- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).