Tolu

Definition: Tolu

Tolu

Noun

1. An aromatic balsam.

2. Aromatic yellowish brown balsam from the tolu balsam tree used especially in cough syrups.

"Tolu" is a common misspelling or typo for: tale, tile, tofu, told, toll, tool, tour, tout.

Synonyms: Tolu

Synonyms: balsam of tolu (n), tolu balsam (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Tolu

English words defined with "tolu": balsam of tolu ♦ Friar's balsam ♦ Myroxylon balsamum, Myroxylon toluiferum ♦ tolu balsam, tolu balsam tree, tolu tree. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Tolu" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Samoan (three).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Tolu (1970)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Giovanni Tolu : storia di un bandito sardo narrata da lui medesimo : preceduta da cenni storici sui banditi del Logudoro (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Tolu, Vol. 3 (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Tolu" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tolu" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	2	245,945

Expressions using "tolu": Balsam of Tolu ♦ tolu balsam ♦ tolu balsam tree ♦ tolu tree. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "tolu"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		tolubalsamtrae (balsam of Tolu tree), tolubalsam (tolu balsam). (various references)

Dutch		Toluifera balsamum (balsam of Tolu tree), tolubalsem (tolu balsam), Myroxylon toluifera (balsam of Tolu tree). (various references)

Finnish		Perunbalsami (balsam of Tolu tree). (various references)

French		baumier de Tolu (balsam of Tolu tree), baume de tolu (tolu balsam). (various references)

German		Tolubalsambaum (balsam of Tolu tree), Tolubalsam (tolu balsam). (various references)

Greek		βάλσαμο tolu (tolu balsam), μυρόξυλον το τολουϊφόρον (balsam of Tolu tree). (various references)

Italian		tolù (balsam of Tolu tree), balsamo di Tolû (tolu balsam). (various references)

Pig Latin		olutay

Portuguese		bálsamo de tolu (tolu balsam). (various references)

Spanish		bálsamo de tolú (tolu balsam). (various references)

Swedish		tolubalsamträd (balsam of Tolu tree). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Myroxylon toluifera, Toluifera balsamum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tolu": toluate, toluates, toluene, toluenes, toluic, toluid, toluide, toluides, toluidin, toluidine, toluidines, toluidins, toluids, toluol, toluole, toluoles, toluols, tolus, toluyl, toluyls. (additional references)
	Words containing "tolu": trinitrotoluene, trinitrotoluenes. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: lout.
	Words within the letters "l-o-t-u"
	-1 letter: lot, out.
	-2 letters: lo, to, ut.
	Words containing the letters "l-o-t-u"
	+1 letter: clout, flout, glout, lotus, louts, moult, poult, tolus.
	+2 letters: brulot, clouts, flouts, glouts, layout, locust, loquat, louted, moults, occult, outfly, outlaw, outlay, outlet, outlie, pluton, potful, poults, putlog, solute, sublot, toluic, toluid, toluol, toluyl, topful, torula, tousle, touzle, tufoli, tupelo, ultimo, unbolt, untold, volute.
	+3 letters: aliquot, bailout, blowout, boatful, boletus, botulin, brulots, butanol, cloture, clouted, clouter, consult, couldst, coulter, couplet, courtly, culotte, dilutor, doublet, eelpout, elution, evolute, fallout, floruit, flouted, flouter, foldout, foulest, glouted, gluepot, glutton, goutily, holdout, holibut, layouts, linocut, locknut, lockout, locusta, locusts, lookout, loquats, lotuses, loudest, louting, loutish, luteous, moulted, moulter, mulatto, noctule, occults, octuple, octuply, oculist, opulent, outbawl, outbulk, outduel, outfall, outfeel, outfelt, outflew, outflow, outfool, outglow, outhaul, outhowl, outkill, outlaid, outlain, outland, outlast, outlaws, outlays, outleap, outlets, outlier, outlies, outline, outlive, outlook, outlove, outplan, outplay, outplod, outplot, outpoll, outpull, outroll, outsail, outsell, outsold, outsole, outsulk, outtalk, outtell, outtold, outwalk, outwile, outwill, outyell, outyelp, ovulate, plutons, pollute, potfuls, potluck, poulter, poultry, poutful, pullout, putlogs, rollout, sellout, slipout, solutes, stoutly, sublots, subplot, tabouli, talcous, toilful, toluate, toluene, toluide, toluids, toluole, toluols, toluyls, topfull, torulae, torulas, toughly, tousled, tousles, touzled, touzles, troilus, trouble, tumoral, tupelos, turmoil, unbolts, urolith, veloute, voluted, volutes, volutin, walkout, wouldst.
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