urunday

English

Etymology

From Tupian.

Noun

urunday (plural urundays)

1. A tree, Myracrodruon balansae (syn. Astronium balansae).
   • 1881, Ernest William White, Cameos from the Silver-land: Or, The Experiences of a Young Naturalist in the Argentine Republic, London: J. Van Voorst, page 44:

     ... mantling the slopes are other still denser forests, where the Pacara (Enterolobium timbavica), Lapacho (Tecoma stans), Quina-Quina (Myroxilon peruanum), urunday (allied to the Lapacho) Quefioa (Rosacea Polylepis racemosa), Cascaron ...

   • 1886, Juan Pelleschi, Eight Months on the Gran Chaco of the Argentine Republic, London: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, page 247:

     Growing with or near the sebil, we find the two cedars, the white and the pink; the lapaccio, that we have remarked likewise in the sub-zone of the urunday, the walnut, the laurel, the tatane, the pacara, the mulberry, the tipa, the male oak,...

   • 1904, Journal of the African Society, page 419:

     The Wax Palm, Copemica cert/era, is wide-spread, and the Pacara, a huge Mimosa, is described as a tree of great size and beauty, yielding a fruit containing a large percentage of Saponine. Other useful trees in the Gran Chaco are urunday, ...

   • 1953, Frank Norman Howes, Vegetable tanning materials:

     The exploitation of urunday and the production of extract is a very much more recent development than the production of ...

   • 1998, Philip Trower, A Danger to the State: A Historical Novel, Ignatius Press, →ISBN:

     In the distance there were more paraiso trees, as well as palms, cedars, urundays, and quebrachos. With the sun shining directly down on them, they looked almost black. Apart from his companions, there was no one in sight.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uɾunˈdai/ [u.ɾũn̪ˈd̪ai̯]
• Rhymes: -ai
• Syllabification: u‧run‧day

Noun

urunday m (plural urundayes)

1. a tree, Myracrodruon balansae (syn. Astronium balansae)

Further reading

• “urunday”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014