ombu

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1. 1
   noun

   a massive, fast-growing South American plant, Phytolacca dioica, with a broad trunk of soft water-rich tissue and a wide evergreen crown

   A solitary ombu shaded the ranch house on the open pampas.

Borrowed from Spanish ombu, from Guarani umbu. Although commonly called a tree, it is a giant arborescent herb related to pokeweed, with unusually soft, water-storing tissue rather than ordinary woody timber.

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