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Definition of Seaside mahoe
1. Noun. Pantropical tree of usually seacoasts sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its rounded heart-shaped leaves and showy yellow and purple flowers; yields valuable pink to dark red close-grained wood and oil from its seeds.
Group relationships: Genus Thespesia, Thespesia
Generic synonyms: Tulipwood Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seaside Mahoe
Literary usage of Seaside mahoe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of edited by Everard Ferdinand Im Thurn, John Joseph Quelch, James Rodway (1889)
"... rounded leaves curiously snipped into a short abrupt point at the end of the
mid-rib, and large yellow flowers like an hibiscus ; and the seaside mahoe ..."
2. The Indian Forester (1898)
"The wood of the Indian seaside mahoe or tulip tree ( Thespesia populnea) is worth
a trial by rod makers. Lancewood, which occurs in Guiana and Cuba, ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"seaside mahoe, '/'/,../»••<'" populnea, also one of the Malvaceae, whose bast
has been used in British Guiana for making coffee-sacks. mahogany ..."
4. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"... and purple: capsules depressed, 3—i.5 cm. broad.—Coastal hammocks. Xat.
of the Old World Tropics. —FK (Bali., Cuba, Ant.)—SEASIDE-MAHOE. FAMILY 3. ..."
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