Definition of Bursera microphylla

1. Noun. Small tree or shrub of the southwestern United States having a spicy odor and odd-pinnate leaves and small clusters of white flowers.

Exact synonyms: Elephant Tree
Generic synonyms: Incense Tree
Group relationships: Bursera, Genus Bursera

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bursera Microphylla

Burnsians
Burnside
Burow's operation
Burow's solution
Burow's triangle
Burow's vein
Burrampooter
Burrhus Frederic Skinner
Burrill Bernard Crohn
Burroughs
Burroughsian
Burrows
Bursa
Bursa of Fabricius
Bursera
Bursera microphylla (current term)
Bursera simaruba
Burseraceae
Bursledon
Burton
Burton's line
Burtonian
Buru babirusa
Buruli ulcer
Burundi
Burundi franc
Burundian
Burundians
Burushaski

Literary usage of Bursera microphylla

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Zoe: A Biological Journal by Townshend Stith Brandegee, Katharine Layne Brandegee (1891)
"... Bursera microphylla, called " torote " by the natives. This reddish bark is cut in small pieces from the trunks and larger limbs of the tree and spread ..."

2. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1904)
"The granite slopes supported a sparse vegetation of such types as Mammillaria, Ephedra, Bursera microphylla, Asclepias albicans, ..."

3. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1902)
"From Moreno, Mexico. Received through Mr. WT Swingle, December, 1899. Distributed. 4504. Bursera microphylla. ..."

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