timbo

1. (possibly obsolete) The pacara tree, Enterolobium contortisiliquum.Examples: "Among the handsomest trees which I have met is the "Timbo" (Enterolobium timbosa), which grows sometimes to the height of [...]. Half a dozen other species of Enterolobium, all inferior to the Timbo, grow in the Paraguayan forests."; "The host is sometimes called the Timbo, but it is not the true Timbo, which is Enterolobium contortisiliquum."; "At a short distance from the banks of the river Paraguay commences the forest exhibiting its red and white quebrachos, carob-trees, timbos, etcetera. The soil is very rich and in the clearings there are excellent pastures' ..."obsoletepossibly