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Definition of Kentucky coffee tree
1. Noun. Handsome tree of central and eastern North America having large bipinnate leaves and green-white flowers followed by large woody brown pods whose seeds are used as a coffee substitute.
Group relationships: Genus Gymnocladus, Gymnocladus
Generic synonyms: Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kentucky Coffee Tree
Literary usage of Kentucky coffee tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"The wood is heavy, coarse-grained, dark brown or red, with lighter colored sap-wood.
Kentucky coffee-tree. After Britton and Brown. ..."
2. Studies of Trees in Winter: A Description of the Deciduous Trees of by Annie Oakes Huntington (1902)
"... THE YELLOWWOOD, AND THE Kentucky coffee tree Family Leguminous THE Leguminosa
are a large order of plants including many different genera, ..."
3. Trees and Shrubs: An Abridgment of the Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum by John Claudius Loudon (1875)
"The Canada Gymnocladus, or Kentucky coffee tree. Unit/kalian. Lam. Diet., 1. p.
733., and 111., t. 823.; Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 2. p. 241.; Dec. Pn»I.. ..."
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