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Definition of Caesalpinia bonducella
1. Noun. Tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries.
Terms within: Bonduc Nut, Nicker Nut, Nicker Seed
Group relationships: Caesalpinia, Genus Caesalpinia
Generic synonyms: Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caesalpinia Bonducella
Literary usage of Caesalpinia bonducella
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1906)
"The seeds of Caesalpinia bonducella have been also found stranded on beaches in
other parts of the world. Thus Prof. Schimper found them in the beach-drift ..."
2. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"... the grey irregularly rounded seeds of Caesalpinia bonducella, the flat dark
ones of a Dioclea, the oblong ones of a species of Erythrina ; the seedlings ..."
3. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian by Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (1912)
"Caesalpinia bonducella (L.) Flem. Canavalia galeata Gaud., var. pubescens Hk.
& Arn. Cassia occidentalis 1. Erythrina monosperma Gaud. ..."
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