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▪ I. ‖ palas, pulas|pəˈlɑːs| Also pa-, pulash. [Hindī palāç, palās, Skr. palāça.] The dhak-tree of India (Butea frondosa and B. superba). palas kino, the kino yielded by this tree, Bengal kino.
1799Colebrooke in Life (1873) 407 note, Butea frondosa, named Palás, or Dhac. 1841Elphinstone Hist. Ind. I. iii. xi. 343 Spaces of several days' journey across covered with the palás or dák tree, which in spring loses all its leaves and is entirely covered with large red and orange flowers, which make the whole of the hills seem in a blaze. 1866Treas. Bot. 183 The Dhak or Pulas of India. 1883Cassell's Fam. Mag. Oct. 685/1 The Palash tree..is considered the most suitable tree for the production of lac. ▪ II. palas obs. form of palace n.1 and n.2 |