samba

Noun

• a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers

• a lively ballroom dance from Brazil

• music composed for dancing the samba

• large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood

Verb

• dance the samba

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  obeche , obechi , arere , Triplochiton scleroxcylon