Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🌳 A hardwood tree 🌴 A tropical tree
ipil

ipil

9.9
A tropical tree often planted for wood and animal feed
  • noun
  • Philippine
: ipil
  • Cattle often graze under the ipil because its leaves are nutritious.

Examples

  • The durable wood of the ipil is valued for making furniture and tools.

  • The ipil tree grows rapidly in tropical climates.

  • Farmers planted ipil trees to provide shade and improve the soil.

  • Farmers often plant ipils for their nutritious foliage.

  • Farmers planted ipil trees to provide shade and improve the soil.

  • The durable wood of the ipil is valued for making furniture and tools.

  • Cattle often graze under the ipil because its leaves are nutritious.

Synonyms

Leucaena
vsipil
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A small tropical tree or shrub with long seed pods used for animal food and to improve soil

is a single tropical tree grown especially for wood or animal feed
genus Leucaena
vsipil
  • Specialized
9.0

A small group of tropical trees and shrubs from the Americas that help soil and give animal food and shade

is grown for wood and animal feed rather than defined by native range

Surface Forms

ipil singular
ipils plural

Etymology

Ipil is also used for a fast-growing tree often called ipil-ipil in the same region, where the doubled name marks a related tree farmers plant for leaves and shade. So, ipil can mean a useful tropical tree grown for animal fodder and light wood.