[Moluccan lenggoa, dial. var. of Malay līgūh (Le Clercq Ternate Vocab., 1890). The word appears as linggoa-boom (Du. boom = tree) in Valentyn Oost-Indien (1726), III. I. 215.] A large leguminous tree, Pterocarpus indicus, or its wood (native in the East Indies), also called Burmese rosewood, Amboyna wood, Kyabuka, etc.
1800. Asiatic Ann. Reg., Misc. Tracts, 74, note. Of the Lingoa-wood Valentyn describes three sorts, the red, the white, and the stone-hard lingoa.
1808. trans. Stavorinus, in Pinkerton, Voy. & Trav., XI. 254. The wood which is called Amboyna wood, or properly Lingoa Wood.
1890. Century Dict., Lingo.
