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mansonia (iou)



mansonia noun. M20.
[mod. Latin (see below), from F. B. Manson (fl. 1905), forester in Burma (Myanmar): see -IA1.]
Any of several large trees of the genus Mansonia (family Sterculiaceae), esp. the W. African M. altissima; the hardwood obtained from such a tree.