cuban bast

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cuban bast - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Cuban bast
      n 1: erect forest tree of Cuba and Jamaica having variably hairy
           leaves and orange-yellow or orange-red flowers; yields a
           moderately dense timber for cabinetwork and gunstocks [syn:
           Cuban bast, blue mahoe, mahoe, majagua, mahagua,
           Hibiscus elatus]