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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tall tree of the linden family, Apeiba Tibourbou, of Venezuela, Guiana, and Brazil, which yields a fiber resembling Russian bast. Its spiny fruits resemble a chestnut-bur, for which reason it is called
erizo (hedgehog) in Venezuela and Colombia.
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