balete

See also: Balete

Cebuano

Alternative forms

• balite
• baliti

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ba‧le‧te

Noun

balete

1. (proscribed) any of a number of trees in the Philippines, mostly strangler figs, that are broadly referred to as balete in the local languages

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:balete.

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Tagalog

puno ng balete

Noun

balete

1. a banyan; a strangler fig tree

   Pinapaniwalaang ng ilang mga tao tumitira ang mga engkanto sa mga puno ng balete

   Some people believe that spirits live on banyan trees.