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. |
Bellied
(a.) Having (such) a belly |
Bellied
(imp. & p. p.) of Belly |
Big-bellied
(a.) Having a great belly |
Bo tree
() The peepul tree |
Broken-bellied
(a.) Having a ruptured belly. |
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. |
Chestnut
(n.) The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur. |
Chestnut
(n.) The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc. |
Chestnut
(n.) A bright brown color, like that of the nut. |
Chestnut
(n.) The horse chestnut (often so used in England). |
Chestnut
(n.) One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals. |
Chestnut
(n.) An old joke or story. |
Chestnut
(a.) Of the color of a chestnut |
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. |
Fir tree
() See Fir. |
Fish-bellied
(a.) Bellying or swelling out on the under side |
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). |
Gor-bellied
(a.) Bog-bellied. |
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). |
Great-bellied
(a.) Having a great belly |
Hep tree
() The wild dog-rose. |
Hip tree
() The dog-rose. |
Horse-chestnut
(n.) The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name. |
Horse-chestnut
(n.) The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes. |
Ironbark tree
() The Australian Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, used largely by carpenters and shipbuilders |
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. |
Partridge
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicidae, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird. |
Partridge
(n.) Any one of several species of quail-like birds belonging to Colinus, and allied genera. |
Partridge
(n.) The ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus). |
Peepul tree
() A sacred tree (Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists, a kind of fig tree which attains great size and venerable age. See Bo tree. |
Pipal tree
() Same as Peepul tree. |
Pippul tree
() Same as Peepul tree. |
Planer tree
() A small-leaved North American tree (Planera aquatica) related to the elm, but having a wingless, nutlike fruit. |
Plane tree
() Same as 1st Plane. |
Pot-bellied
(a.) Having a protuberant belly, like the bottom of a pot. |