white bombway

noun

white bomb·​way

variants or less commonly white bombwe

-ˈbäm(ˌ)(b)wā

or white bombe

-m(ˌ)bā

: an Indian timber tree (Terminalia procera) having lustrous light brown wood with slight dark streaks

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