单词 | bilian |
释义 | biliann. The ironwood of Borneo. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other Asian woods agalloch1543 amboyna wood1738 satinwood1773 sal1789 sissoo1810 bilian1812 haldu1836 kempas1839 saj1839 Trincomalee wood1842 rosetta wood1843 model-wood1857 keyaki1863 Macassar ebony1885 lauan1894 pyinkado1896 keruing1921 ramin1953 kapur1963 1812 J. Hunt Sketch Borneo in H. Keppel Exped. Borneo (1846) II. App. p. xxxi The woods about Pontiana for carpentry and joinery are, kayu bulean, chena, [etc.]. 1846 J. Brooke in H. Keppel Exped. Borneo II. viii. 167 The Chinese export considerable quantities of timber from Sambas and Pontiana, particularly of the kind called Balean by the natives, or the lion-wood of the Europeans. 1882 H. de Windt On Equator 63 Loading ‘bilian’ or iron wood. 1887 H. W. Daly Digging, Squatting, & Pioneering Life S. Austral. 272 Forests of bilian..in British North Borneo. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 417/1 With the exception of billian (iron wood) from the river Rejang, very little is exported. 1906 Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 42 That wonderful wood billian, the Bornean ironwood. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1812 |
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