balete

See also: Balete

Cebuano

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: ba‧le‧te

Noun

balete

  1. (proscribed) any of a number of trees in the Philippines, mostly strangler figs, that are broadly referred to as balete in the local languages

Quotations

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Tagalog
puno ng balete

Noun

balete

  1. a banyan; a strangler fig tree
    Pinapaniwalaang ng ilang mga tao tumitira ang mga engkanto sa mga puno ng balete
    Some people believe that spirits live on banyan trees.
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