Definition of "ombu" [ombu]

• Fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "When the Spanish first came to the Pampa, the ombu was the only tree that grew here."
• "The ombu is a handsome tree to the eye, not unlike an English walnut in its habit of growth, and it has the one merit of being a splendid shade-tree."
• "The ombu is a very singular tree indeed, and being the only representative of tree-vegetation, natural to the soil, on those great level plains, and having also many curious superstitions connected with it, it is a romance in itself."