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Definition of Black mangrove

1. Noun. An Australian tree resembling the black mangrove of the West Indies and Florida.

2. Noun. A mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast; occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Mangrove

black light black line black locust black locusts black lotion black lovage black lung black lung disease black magic black magick

black maire black mallee black mamba black mambas black man black mangrove (current term) black maple black margate black mark black market

black marketeer black markets black marlin black measles black membrane black men black metal black morel black moss

Literary usage of Black mangrove

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

1. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"The Floridian depends upon a smudge of punky black mangrove to rid him of mosquitoes and ... The black mangrove is a tropical member of the verbena family, ..."

2. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1847)
"BY W. HAMILTON, MB The black mangrove is a tree frequently of imposing stature, attaining an altitude of from thirty to fifty or more feet, and occupying ..."

3. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1886)
"The last-named species is one of the most common insects on Key West and breeds in all sorts of the harder forest trees. On "the black mangrove I never was ..."

4. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1859)
"These keys are likewise covered with black mangrove, sea-grape, ... This key, like the others, is thickly overgrown with black mangrove, sea-grape, ..."

5. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"BLACK-MANGROVE FAMILY. Shrubs or trees of maritime regions, the branches terete, nodose. ... Coastal hammocks.—FK (Ber., Bah., Cuba, Ant.)— BLACK-MANGROVE. ..."

6. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"The Floridian depends upon a smudge of punky black mangrove to rid him of mosquitoes and ... The black mangrove is a tropical member of the verbena family, ..."

7. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1847)
"BY W. HAMILTON, MB The black mangrove is a tree frequently of imposing stature, attaining an altitude of from thirty to fifty or more feet, and occupying ..."

8. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1886)
"The last-named species is one of the most common insects on Key West and breeds in all sorts of the harder forest trees. On "the black mangrove I never was ..."

9. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1859)
"These keys are likewise covered with black mangrove, sea-grape, ... This key, like the others, is thickly overgrown with black mangrove, sea-grape, ..."

10. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"BLACK-MANGROVE FAMILY. Shrubs or trees of maritime regions, the branches terete, nodose. ... Coastal hammocks.—FK (Ber., Bah., Cuba, Ant.)— BLACK-MANGROVE. ..."

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