Home › Words › B › balatabalatabalata means manilkara bidentata, a large South American tree that yields latex and edible yellow berries.EtymologyBorrowed from Spanish balatá.nounManilkara bidentata, a large South American tree that yields latex and edible yellow berries.e.g.“‘She tall like a balata tree, her skin black like midnight.’” — 2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 215:The latex obtained from this tree.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.ausubo 72% match — balata tree vs balata →bulletwood 65% match — A tropical hardwood tree of species Manilkara bidentata, grown commercially in Puerto Rico. vs balata →massaranduba 64% match — A tropical hardwood tree, Manilkara bidentata, native to South America which produces edible fruit. vs balata →rubberwood 64% match — The wood of the Pará rubber tree. vs balata →biriba 63% match — The tropical tree (Rollinia mucosa, syn. Rollinia deliciosa), native to South America, cultivated widely. vs balata →braziletto 61% match — The brazilwood tree. vs balata →tatane 61% match — A South American tree, also called the palo amarillo or tatare, which has a piquant juice in its bark used for dyeing, and golden yellow wood good for carpentry. vs balata →bintangor 60% match — A hardwood tree of the genus Calophyllum. vs balata →