Definition of Mesua

1. Noun. Genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Mesua

Messiah
Messiahship
Messidor
Messier
Messier catalog
Messier catalogue
Messier number
Messier object
Messier objects
Messina
Messinese
Messrs
Messrs.
Mestee
Mestees
Mesua (current term)
Mesua ferrea
Met
Met-enkephalin heptapeptide dipeptidase
Met Office
Metagonimus
Metasequoia glyptostrodoides
Metastrongylus
Metastrongylus apri
Metastrongylus elongatus
Metastrongylus pudendotectus
Metastrongylus salmi
Metatheria
Metaurus River
Metcalf

Literary usage of Mesua

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"The are of a heating, inflaming quality ; and are root of the Mesua férrea tree is considered named, and well described, in the lines of i astringent and ..."

2. Pharmacographia Indica: A History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin by William Dymock, C. J. H. Warden, David Hooper (1890)
"If per Ib. Mesua FERREA, Linn. Fig.—Rhee.de, Hort. Mai. Hi., 53; Wight Ill.,t. 127; Ic. i. 118. ... The root bark of Mesua ferrea contains ..."

3. The Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India by William Dymock (1885)
"1 i per Ib. Mesua ferrea, Linn., Wight III, t. 127; Ic., M18. ... The root bark of Mesua ferrea contains much resinous juice, which exudes freely when it is ..."

4. A Compendium of Molesworth's Marathi and English Dictionary by James Thomas Molesworth, Baba Padmanji (1863)
"... race of females of serpentine extraction and very beautiful. 2 fig. A beautiful woman. II*rWi т?, (s) A small tree, Mesua férrea : also its flower (un- ..."

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