balata, balata tree, beefwood, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata
(noun) a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
balata, gutta balata
(noun) when dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls
Source: WordNet® 3.1
balata (countable and uncountable, plural balatas)
Manilkara bidentata, a large South American tree that yields latex and edible yellow berries.
The latex obtained from this tree.
• albata, atabal
Source: Wiktionary
Bal"a*ta, n. [Sp., prob. fr. native name.]
1.
Definition: A West Indian sapotaceous tree (Bumelia retusa).
2. The bully tree (Minusops globosa); also, its milky juice (balata gum), which when dried constitutes an elastic gum called chicle, or chicle gum.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.