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Definition of Garcinia cambogia
1. Noun. Low spreading tree of Indonesia yielding an orange to brown gum resin (gamboge) used as a pigment when powdered.
Group relationships: Garcinia, Genus Garcinia
Generic synonyms: Angiospermous Tree, Flowering Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Garcinia Cambogia
Literary usage of Garcinia cambogia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Companion to the Botanical Magazine: Being a Journal, Containing Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1836)
"The Garcinia cambogia, of which I transmit you a representation, is one of the
most common trees in this neighbourhood, attaining a large size, ..."
2. The Timber Trees, Timber and Fancy Woods, as Also, the Forests, of India and by Edward Balfour (1870)
"Garcinia cambogia, Roxb., not Desr., syn. of Garcinia roxburghii, RW Garcinia
affinis, W. fy A., eyn. of Garcinia rox- ..."
3. Medical Botany; Or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants ...by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill, Gilbert Thomas Burnett by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill, Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1834)
"Garcinia cambogia. Willd.Sp. PL v. 2. p. 848. ... hereafter described, yet there
is some reason to believe that the Garcinia cambogia of Linnaeus, ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1837)
"It is well known that Linnaeus referred gamboge to the Garcinia cambogia,
Willd.; and others have supposed that a kind of gamboge is also produced by the ..."
5. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1837)
"Dr Christison has now been enabled to add to this investigation an account of
the composition and properties of the concrete juices of the Garcinia cambogia ..."
6. Companion to the Botanical Magazine: Being a Journal, Containing Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1836)
"The Garcinia cambogia, of which I transmit you a representation, is one of the
most common trees in this neighbourhood, attaining a large size, ..."
7. The Timber Trees, Timber and Fancy Woods, as Also, the Forests, of India and by Edward Balfour (1870)
"Garcinia cambogia, Roxb., not Desr., syn. of Garcinia roxburghii, RW Garcinia
affinis, W. fy A., eyn. of Garcinia rox- ..."
8. Medical Botany; Or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants ...by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill, Gilbert Thomas Burnett by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill, Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1834)
"Garcinia cambogia. Willd.Sp. PL v. 2. p. 848. ... hereafter described, yet there
is some reason to believe that the Garcinia cambogia of Linnaeus, ..."
9. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1837)
"It is well known that Linnaeus referred gamboge to the Garcinia cambogia,
Willd.; and others have supposed that a kind of gamboge is also produced by the ..."
10. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1837)
"Dr Christison has now been enabled to add to this investigation an account of
the composition and properties of the concrete juices of the Garcinia cambogia ..."
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