| bully tree | <botany> The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceae, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| cabbage tree | The bark of Andira inermis, a leguminous tree of tropical America, used as an emetic, purgative, and anthelmintic. Synonym: cabbage tree, worm bark. Origin: West Indian native name (05 Mar 2000) |
| galapee tree | <botany> The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mahwa tree | <botany> An East Indian sapotaceous tree (Bassia latifolia, and also B. Butyracea), whose timber is used for wagon wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gatten tree | <botany> A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europaeus). Origin: Cf. Prov. E. Gatter bush. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| peepul tree | <botany> A sacred tree (Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists, a kind of fig tree which attains great size and venerable age. See Bo tree. Alternative forms: pippul tree, and pipal tree. Origin: Hind. Pipal, Skr. Pippala. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gourd tree | <botany> A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| grass tree | <botany> An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called "blackboys" from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides. A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rowan tree | <botany> A european tree (Pyrus aucuparia) related to the apple, but with pinnate leaves and flat corymbs of small white flowers followed by little bright red berries. Called also roan tree, and mountain ash. The name is also applied to two American trees of similar habit (Pyrus Americana, and P. Sambucifolia). Origin: Cf. Sw. Ronn, Dan. Ronne, Icel. Reynir, and L. Ornus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| water tree | <botany> A climbing shrub (Tetracera alnifolia, or potatoria) of Western Africa, which pours out a watery sap from the freshly cut stems. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pipal tree | Same as Peepul tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pippul tree | Same as Peepul tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| planer tree | <botany> A small-leaved North American tree (Planera aquatica) related to the elm, but having a wingless, nutlike fruit. Origin: From J.S.Planer, a German botanist. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plane tree | <botany> Same as 1st Plane. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| whitten tree | <botany> Either of two shrubs (Viburnum Lantana, and V. Opulus), so called on account of their whitish branches. Origin: Probably from white; cf. AS. Hwitingtreow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |