BURILIUS / BURÍLYUS • (boo-REE-lyoos)

local flagellum or whip made of bundled cylindrical bamboo rods

Tagálog (Filipino): bulyós


Etymology
From Spanish buríos (burillos in Honduras), plural of burío (burillo in Honduras), a Central American tree (Heliocarpus appendiculatus) from which ropes are made from its bark.


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