- a South American tree, Ocotea (or Nectandra) rodiei, of the laurel family, yielding a hard, durable wood often used for wharves and bridges and in shipbuilding.
- any of certain other timber trees of tropical America.
- their valuable greenish wood.
- a tropical American lauraceous tree, Ocotea (or Nectandra) rodiaei, that has dark green durable wood and bark that yields the alkaloid bebeerine
- any of various similar trees
- the wood of any of these trees
