Similar words: balsam, alsace, pulsar, pulsate, pulsation, pulsating, devil's advocate, also. Meaning: n. 1. strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats 2. forest tree of lowland Central America having a strong very light wood; used for making floats and rafts and in crafts.
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1. The lighter woods, such as balsa, can be crushed with the finger.
2. The balsa tree bursts into bloom at sunset during Panama’s dry season, feeding a kaleidoscope of species.
3. And now we come to a minor balsa mystery. Why does the tree flower at night?
4. Scientists had long assumed that the balsa tree's target audience must be bats.
5. Built from carbon fibres and balsa wood, Snowbird has a wing span of 32m (105 feet) - comparable to a Boeing 737.
6. The body is built from balsa wood, and the wings powered by a wire crank driven by a rubber band.
7. The duo cut rectangular holes in balsa wood and covered them with glass microscope slides.
8. A chair made of balsa wood is very light. If you're hit with a balsa wood chair you won't be injured.
9. Owl City: My house is made out of balsa wood.
10. They have the heft of balsa wood. They are as porous as a sponge, brittle as a coffee mug dropped on the floor ...
11. Agriculture: bananas, coffee , cacao, rice; cattle; balsa wood; fish.
12. Balsa . This hull should really be done on a lath but you know me.
13. The children were asked to model an airplane out of balsa - wood.
14. Whole sections of the City were trampled flat, buildings going down like balsa wood.
15. The boy sat on the floor beside her, carving a piece of balsa wood.
16. Victory or no,[Sentencedict.com ] the Colorado River was a rampant horse in a balsa corral.
17. It was he who folded aluminium, made ceramic sculpture in Japan, created delicate pieces in balsa wood.
18. A chip off Ochroma will even outbob a cork: Balsa has a fifth the density of water, cork a fourth.
19. Model aircraft are flying or non-flying models of existing or imaginary aircraft, often scaled down versions of full size planes, using materials such as balsa wood, foam and fiberglass.
20. The Tangaroa expedition aims to recreate Thor Heyerdahl's legendary Kon-Tiki voyage across the Pacific Ocean, from Peru to the Polynesia in a balsa raft in 1947.
21. This Beaune announces its evolved nature with a strawberry brick-red colour. The nose is full of potent, chalky, balsa wood, red currant, juniper and raspberry hair nose.
22. In 1947, Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl built a primitive raft made of balsa logs lashed together by hemp rope, and set out from Callao, Peru, on a voyage across the Pacific.
23. Or you can use a couple of thin slices of balsa to make a huge wing, one that will carry maybe twenty engines.
24. White-faced capuchins, like this mother and baby, arrive daily at their favorite balsa trees just before nightfall.
25. Long ago, the ancestors had no cultivated plants or clay pots, and had to live on a diet of mashed balsa wood cooked in their armpits.
26. My wife and I stopped to talk to two peddlers outside theFoxconn plant in Longhua this August. They had laid out a blanket on thesidewalk to display their wares, balsa model kits.
27. The boy who posed proudly for the camera with a balsa -wood glider and a silver cup grew naturally into the inventor whose chief joy was to make wings ever lighter and ever larger.
28. A kinkajou's pollen-dusted cheek tells of a late-night nectar binge in an Ochroma, or balsa, tree.
29. It is made of very thick paper, which is ever harder than balsa.
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