[], (Noun)

Definitions:
- Any of various Latin American and Californian trees having hard, heavy wood used for construction, shipbuilding, etc.; especially (a) the valley oak of California, Quercus lobata; (b) the Central and South American timber tree Platymiscium pinnatum (family Fabaceae); (c) a West Indian species of catalpa, C. longissima (now rare); (d) (more fully "roble beech") a species of southern beech, Nothofagus obliqua.


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Origin:
early 19th century. From Spanish roble oak, subsequently applied to various Latin American and Californian trees having hard, heavy wood from classical Latin rōbor-, rōbur oak tree