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pulas
n. The East Indian leguminous tree ''Butea frondosa''.
Usage examples of "pulas".
The fare-was seventy pulas, the equivalent of twenty'Seven American dollars.
Other glamorous-sounding old Los Angeles street names have equally ugly or homely meanings: Las Pulas means “the fleas,” Temescal means “sweat house,” while La Ciénega, street of the wonder-restaurants, means “the swamp.