Definition of Kentucky coffee tree

1. Noun. Handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute.

Exact synonyms: Bonduc, Chicot, Gymnocladus Dioica
Group relationships: Genus Gymnocladus, Gymnocladus
Generic synonyms: Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kentucky Coffee Tree

Kenny
Kenny's treatment
Kensington
Kent's bundle
Kent-His bundle
Kent bugle
Kentish
Kentuckian
Kentuckians
Kentucky
Kentucky Derby
Kentucky blue
Kentucky coffee tree (current term)
Kentucky coffeetree
Kentucky coffeetrees
Kentucky rifle
Kentucky rifles
Kentucky windage
Kentucky wonder
Kentucky wonder bean
Kentucky yellowwood
Kenya
Kenya fever
Kenyan
Kenyan Sign Language
Kenyan monetary unit

Literary usage of Kentucky coffee tree

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

1. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"The wood is heavy, coarse-grained, dark brown or red, with lighter colored sap-wood. Kentucky coffee-tree. After Britton and Brown. ..."

2. Studies of Trees in Winter: A Description of the Deciduous Trees of by Annie Oakes Huntington (1902)
"... THE YELLOWWOOD, AND THE Kentucky coffee tree Family Leguminous THE Leguminosa are a large order of plants including many different genera, ..."

3. Trees and Shrubs: An Abridgment of the Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum by John Claudius Loudon (1875)
"The Canada Gymnocladus, or Kentucky coffee tree. Unit/kalian. Lam. Diet., 1. p. 733., and 111., t. 823.; Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 2. p. 241.; Dec. Pn»I.. ..."

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