balsa wood

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   strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats

   Synonymsbalsa

   Broaderwood

Questions about balsa wood

What does balsa wood mean?

balsa wood means "strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats".

What is another word for balsa wood?

Close synonyms include balsa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is balsa wood a common word?

balsa wood is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.