: a genus of Asian and Australian woody plants (family Sterculiaceae) the bark of which yields a strong white fiber — see devil's-cotton
First Known Use of Abroma
1795, in the meaning defined above
History and Etymology for Abroma
borrowed from New Latin, from a-a- entry 2 + Greek brôma “food,” from brō- (going back to Indo-European *gʷṛh3- “devour, consume”) + -ma, deverbal suffix of result