What is "dipterocarp"

Usage examples of "dipterocarp".

The box was buried nearby, in the cage created by the buttress foots of a large dipterocarp tree.

Away from the coast, the tang of salt and ozone faded, to be replaced by the hot, moist scents of the dipterocarps forest, and the overpowering perfume of the crowding flowers.

Trees had been smashed down like skittles, all around that pirouetting fire, and huge shards of the broken-up dipterocarps were picked up and thrown around in the air as easily as match-stalks.

And, even where the effects of the first blast were less marked, we saw the scars of the storm of fire, which had turned whole stands of dipterocarps into clusters of charred, denuded trunks, like immense match-stalks.

There was a bench, lashed up from the wood of the dipterocarps, and a small control panel—a crude thing of switches and buttons—that featured the blue toggle switch which Nebogipfel had salvaged from our first Time-Car.

The new, sparse trees began to die back, but not by withering before my accelerated gaze, like the dipterocarps I had watched earlier.

There was a bench, lashed up from the wood of the dipterocarps, and a small control panel-a crude thing of switches and buttons-that featured the blue toggle switch which Nebogipfel had salvaged from our first Time-Car.