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Definition of California box elder
1. Noun. Maple of the Pacific coast of the United States; fruits are white when mature.
Generic synonyms: Acer Negundo, Ash-leaved Maple, Box Elder
Lexicographical Neighbors of California Box Elder
Literary usage of California box elder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The California Fruits and how to Grow Them: A Manual of Methods which Have by Edward James Wickson (1891)
"Along the streams are the California box elder or soft maple (Negundo Californicum},
the Pacific yew (Taxus ..."
2. The Elements of Forestry: Designed to Afford Information Concerning the by Franklin Benjamin Hough (1882)
"THE CALIFORNIA Box ELDER (Negundo Californiensis). This is commonly a small tree,
but rarely it grows to the height of 70 feet. It occurs along streams, ..."
3. Practical Forestry: A Treatise on the Propagation, Planting, and Cultivation by Andrew Samuel Fuller (1914)
"The California box elder (Negundo Californicum) resembles the Eastern species
very closely, and was previously considered to be identical, ..."
4. Report by California Division of Forestry (1919)
"Green ash, catalpa, Fremont cottonwood, California box elder, hack- berry, English
elm, Huntington elm, mesquite, Russian mulberry, oriental plane, ..."
5. Journal by California Legislature (1883)
"... that few trees can equal the quiet, elegant, and dignified expression of the
California box elder. These qualities, so manifest to all, render it one of ..."
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