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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Balata \Bal"a*ta\, n. [Sp., prob. fr native name.] 1. A West Indian sapotaceous tree ({Bumelia retusa}). 2. The bully tree ({Minusops globosa}); also its milky juice ({); also its milky juice (}), which when dried constitutes an elastic gum called {chicle}, or {chicle gum}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: balata n 1: when dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls [syn: {gutta balata}] 2: a hard-wooded tropical tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber [syn: {balata tree}, {beefwood}, {bully tree}, {Manilkara bidentata}]
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