ROBLE

" 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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