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How to pronounce balsa in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms ochroma lagopus
Type of angiospermous tree, flowering tree
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Synonyms balsa wood
Type of wood

Examples of balsa

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Walton said he believed he observed balsa or some other wood on the blue debris.
From the ocregister.com
The students have also been working to make their own prisms out of balsa wood.
From the desmoinesregister.com
The 27-inch balsa wood sphere lamp uses a Parox LED bulb that will last 10 years.
From the washingtonpost.com
The movie, make no mistake, is clownishly silly, a lark as light as balsa wood.
From the cnn.com
Each team will build a bridge using 20 sticks of balsa wood and a bottle of glue.
From the dailyherald.com
They are worn like gloves, but the finger form extends with balsa wood and cloth.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The floorboards, for instance, have a carbon-fiber shell around a balsa-wood core.
From the businessweek.com
He treasures the 40-pound planks of 10-foot balsa from Ecuador that he has stashed.
From the sacbee.com
Rockets are designed and built by the students from balsa wood and cardboard.
From the timesunion.com
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  • Strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats
  • Forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood; used for making floats and rafts and in crafts
  • Balu0219a (Hungarian: Balsa) is a commune in Hunedoara County, Romania. It is composed of fourteen villages: Almau0219u Mic de Munte (Kisalmu00E1s), Ardeu (Erdu0151falva), Balu0219a, Buneu0219ti (Bunesd), Galbina (Galbina), Mada (Mu00E1da), Opriu0219eu0219ti, Poiana (Poju00E1na), Poieniu021Ba (Vu00E1leajepi), Rou0219ia, Stu0103uini, Techereu (Tekeru0151), Vu0103liu0219oara (Porkura) and Voia (Voja).
  • Balsa is a lightweight e-mail client for GNOME.
  • Balsa is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.
  • Balsa was a Roman coastal town in Hispania, province of Lusitania, Conventus Pacensis (capital Pax Iulia).
  • A Balsa is a boat or ship built by various pre-Columbian South American civilizations constructed from woven reeds of the Totora bullrush. They varied in size from small canoe sized personal fishing boats to large ships up to 30 meters long. They are still used on Lake Titicaca in Bolivia.
  • Ochroma pyramidale, commonly known as balsa, (also O. lagopus) is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is a large, fast-growing tree that can grow up to tall. ...
  • A large tree, Ochroma lagopus, native to tropical America, with wood that is very light in weight; The wood of this tree; A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America