Definition of Flacourtia

1. Noun. Often spiny trees or shrubs of tropical Asia and Africa.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Flacourtia

Fitchie
Fitz
Fitz-
Fitz-Hugh and Curtis syndrome
Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald factor
Fitzhenry
Fitzhugh
Fitzwilliam
Five Alls
Five Nations
Fjölsvinnsmál
Fla
Fla.
Flack's node
Flacourtia
Flacourtia indica
Flacourtiaceae
Flag Day
Flagyl
Flaminian Way
Flaminius
Flammkuchen
Flammulina
Flammulina velutipes
Flamsteedian
Flanders
Flanders poppy
Flannery O'Connor

Literary usage of Flacourtia

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

1. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1903)
"flacourtia rukam is a tree reaching a height of about 20 meters and a diameter of ... The pulp is fleshy, edible, and has an agreeable flavor. flacourtia ..."

2. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1813)
"flacourtia. Gen. pi. 1546. MASC. CVz/. 5-partitus. Cor. 0. Stam. 50—100. FEM. Cal. ... Shining-leaved flacourtia. Nat. ot Madagascar. Introd. 1775, by Mons. ..."

3. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1849)
"The TOMI-TOMI, or Unarmed flacourtia is the flacourtia inermis of authors, and a native of the Molucca Islands, where it is very extensively cultivated for ..."

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