pala
US /'pælə/
・UK /'pælə/
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noun
- A small Indian tree, Wrightia tinctoria (family Apocynaceae), with white wood and a milky sap.
- A shovel-shaped or scoop-shaped structure; specifically one forming an extension of the tarsus of the foreleg in certain aquatic heteropteran insects, used chiefly in feeding and (by the male) in mating.