Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the Marianne Islands, Tristiropsis obtusangula, a tree belonging to the Sapindaceæ, with bipinnate leaves having usually three pairs of pinnæ, each with 4 to 6 leaflets, and with ellipsoidal, obtusely 3-angled fruit covered on the surface with minute dust-like hairs, and containing a bony putamen. On the island of Guam the wood is used in the construction of small boats.
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In the lowlands, most of which have been highly altered, the evergreen fire tree (Myrica faya) is the main species to have regenerated on old lava flows.
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M. faya, native to the Azores and Madeira, has become an invasive problem on other islands, such as Hawaii, to which it was introduced.
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There are three distinctive species Myrica faya, Erica arborea and E. scoparia.
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Could he understand the prescient goatherds in the dark, up in the Canarian holly and the faya, gone dead green in the last sunset of Europe?
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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A View of the Covenant of Grace from the Sacred Records.: Wherein the Parties in that Covenant ... 1797
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Works 1795
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Bell's British Theatre, Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays... 1780
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bilby commented on the word faya
Nigerian English - fire, stove, cooker.
October 16, 2011