culumalda

culumalda

culumalda noun: a kind of tree (evidently orange-tree, culuma + alda) (SA:mal-)

culumalda

noun. laburnum, *(lit.) orange-tree

Quenya name for a “laburnum” described as “a tree with hanging yellow blossoms (prob[ably] a laburnum) growing in Ithilien espec[ially] at Cormallen” (RC/626). Helge Fauskanger suggested it is probably [ᴹQ.] culuma “orange” + alda “tree” (QQ/culumalda).