sakana² general term for ‘carahuascas’, a class of trees that grow in a [...]

Part of Speech	noun
Irregular Plural	sakanaa
Root	sakana
Variant Form(s)	Free Variant: tuuku2

• • general term for ‘carahuascas’, a class of trees that grow in a variety of habitats, including low-lying areas that inundate during the wet season, deep forest areas, and old gardens. They form a class by virtue of the fact that their bark can easily be peeled off in strips and used as tumplines (<tuuku>). They grow to a maximum diameter of 20-40cm, with the trunks of some species in this class used as roof poles

  Scientific Name

  Anaxagorea spp., Guatteria spp., Tetrameranthus spp

Related entries

• Subentry:
  • sakanaa general term for ‘carahuasca’-type tree species (plural)
  • tuuku² ‘carahuasca’, type of tree