Amber tree () A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor. |
Bay tree () A species of laurel. (Laurus nobilis). |
Beam tree () A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple. |
Beech tree () The beech. |
Bo tree () The peepul tree |
Bully tree () 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. |
Candleberry tree () A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles |
Caper tree () See Capper, a plant, 2. |
Coco palm () See Cocoa. |
Cocoa palm () A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters |
Cow tree () A tree (Galactodendron utile or Brosimum Galactodendron) of South America, which yields, on incision, a nourishing fluid, resembling milk. |
Crab tree () See under Crab. |
Date (n.) The fruit of the date palm |
Date (n.) That addition to a writing, inscription, coin, etc., which specifies the time (as day, month, and year) when the writing or inscription was given, or executed, or made |
Date (n.) The point of time at which a transaction or event takes place, or is appointed to take place |
Date (n.) Assigned end |
Date (n.) Given or assigned length of life |
Date (v. t.) To note the time of writing or executing |
Date (v. t.) To note or fix the time of, as of an event |
Date (v. i.) To have beginning |
Doom palm () A species of palm tree (Hyphaene Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia. |
Doum palm () See Doom palm. |
Fan palm () Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves |
Fir tree () See Fir. |
Galapee tree () The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves. |
Gatten tree () A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europaeus). |
Gourd tree () A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America. |
Grass tree () 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. |
Grass tree () A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis). |
Grugru palm () A West Indian name for several kinds of palm. See Macaw tree, under Macaw. |
Hep tree () The wild dog-rose. |
Hip tree () The dog-rose. |
Ironbark tree () The Australian Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, used largely by carpenters and shipbuilders |
Ita palm () A magnificent species of palm (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco. The natives eat its fruit and buds, drink its sap, and make thread and cord from its fiber. |
Jagua palm () A great Brazilian palm (Maximiliana regia), having immense spathes which are used for baskets and tubs. |
Jupati palm () A great Brazilian palm tree (Raphia taedigera), used by the natives for many purposes. |
Locust tree () A large North American tree of the genus Robinia (R. Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In England it is called acacia. |
Mahwa tree () 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. |
Neem tree () An Asiatic name for Melia Azadirachta, and M. Azedarach. See Margosa. |
Nickar tree () Same as Nicker nut, Nicker tree. |
Nicker tree () The plant producing nicker nuts. |
Ople tree () The witch-hazel. |
Palm (n.) The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist. |
Palm (n.) A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers |
Palm (n.) A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc. |
Palm (n.) The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer |
Palm (n.) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke. |
Palm (n.) Any endogenous tree of the order Palmae or Palmaceae |
Palm (n.) A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing. |
Palm (n.) Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph |