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Tappan

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    An emergent tropical rainforest tree, Koompassia excelsa, family Fabaceae, of Southeast Asia.

    "The honey-bee of Borneo very generally hangs its combs under the branches of the Tappan, a tree which towers above all others in the forest, and whose smooth cylindrical trunk often rises a hundred feet without a branch."

Etymology

From Malay tapang.

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