Balas vs Balsa - What's the difference?
balas | balsa |
(archaic) A type of rose-coloured spinel once thought to be a form of ruby (now usually used attributively: balas-ruby ).
A large tree, , native to tropical America, with wood that is very light in weight.
(uncountable) The wood of this tree.
A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.