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ombú|ɒmˈbuː|
Also ombu.
[Amer. Sp., f. Guarani umbú.]
An evergreen tree, Phytolacca dioica, of the family Phytolaccaceæ, native to temperate regions of South America. Also attrib.
1871R. O. Cunningham Notes Nat. Hist. Strait of Magellan xiv. 466 A variety of cottages, each shaded by the umbrageous foliage of the large Ombu. 1878E. Clark Visit S. Amer. ix. 123 The gnarled ombus and willows, and poplars and peach trees, affording the welcome shade. 1902W. H. Hudson El Ombú i. 1 In all this district..you will not find a tree as big as this ombú, standing solitary, where there is no house. Ibid. 2 They say..that those who sit much in the ombú shade become crazed. 1923Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 828/2 A huge, gnarled tree, tremendously thick and spreading like an ombú. 1931B. Miall tr. Guenther's Naturalist in Brazil iv. 79 In the Argentine I have often admired the monumental character of one of the native trees, the Ombú. The roots rise from the ground like great brown bladders, lifting the trunk into the air, and from the trunk the branches spring like a tracery. 1941E. Nash I Liked Life I Lived vi. 70 The humble dwelling was called the house of the twenty-five ombú trees. 1961G. Durrell Whispering Land i. 30 Small, neat estancias, gleaming white in the shade of huge, carunculated ombù trees, that stood massively and grimly on their enormous squat trunks. 1969T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 144/1 The ombú becomes 60 feet tall with a branch spread of more than 100 feet. From the bottom of its very thick trunk it develops extraordinary irregular outgrowths that look like fantastic and bulky roots. Ibid., The elliptic or ovate leaves of the ombú are evergreen and male and female flowers are on separate trees; the fruits are small and berry-like. 1975New Yorker 14 Apr. 36/1 They give shade from the bare sun to man and beast, and men mark their way on the endless plains by remembering this or that ombu tree. |