What is "ombu"

n. fast-growing herbaceous evergreen tree of South America having a broad trunk with high water content and dark green oval leaves [syn: bella sombra, Phytolacca dioica]

The word ombu may refer to:

• ombú ( Phytolacca dioica), a massive evergreen tree native to the Pampa of South America, belonging to the order Caryophyllales
• El Ombú, a Mennonite settlement in Río Negro Department, Uruguay
• El Ombú, a poem by Argentine politician Luis Lorenzo Domínguez
• El Ombú, stories by Anglo-Argentine naturalist William Henry Hudson
• Cañada Ombú, a populated place in Vera Department, province of Santa Fe, Argentina
• Cuchilla del Ombú, a village in Tacuarembó Department, Uruguay
• Battle of Ombú, a military conflict in South America in 1827
• Ombu, a village in Tibet