balsa

"All you can see of Chewie's feet are his toes. My dad carved them out of balsa wood as he is an engineer too," he said.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2024

The roomy interior was cooled by dry ice, with a single headlamp and a crush zone of balsa wood installed in front.

From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2022

He laid out the physics hurdles of such an epic voyage and even crafted a prototype spacecraft from poster board, balsa wood, and Elmer’s glue.

From Science Magazine ● Jul. 27, 2022

Supplies of balsa wood, a major component of wind turbine blades, became scarce this spring because about 95 percent of it comes from Ecuador, which was overwhelmed by the pandemic.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2020

“Good balsa wood isn’t so easy to come by these days, Colonel. I just didn’t think it was a good idea to pass up the chance to buy it.”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

They were taking many of the same chances as their theoretical primitives: the raft was modeled after the balsas of the ancient Peruvians.

From Time Magazine Archive

According to Peruvian tradition, the Inca Tupac Yupanqui sailed a large fleet of balsas into the Pacific, about 1470 A.D.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Indians, however, going in and out among the lanes and rushes, baffled their oppressors, cutting off several Spanish balsas.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston

The rivers are crossed on large flat-bottomed boats called balsas.

From Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America by G. Whitfield Ray

But all showed that they knew how to place their hopes in God, and they arrived at the river which they crossed in balsas, swimming the horses, because the bridge was burned down.

From An Account of the Conquest of Peru by Philip Ainsworth Means