Tappan

Quick meaning: Tappan is a noun meaning An emergent tropical rainforest tree, Koompassia excelsa, family Fabaceae, of Southeast Asia.

Meaning

An emergent tropical rainforest tree, Koompassia excelsa, family Fabaceae, of Southeast Asia.

Example Sentences

The honey-bee of Borneo very generally hangs its combs under the branches of the Tappan, a tree which towers above all others in the forest, and whose smooth cylindrical trunk often rises a hundred feet without a branch.

Two minutes more, and the top-knot of the lofty tappan before the house was thrashing the reeds out of the thatch—there was a shriek as of a thousand buzz-saws—a fusillade of branches and pebbles—and the squall had gone yelling away into the east.

Word Forms

• tappans

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tappen, tapper, tarter, tainter, taber.

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