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Definition of Sterculia foetida
1. Noun. Large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sterculia Foetida
Literary usage of Sterculia foetida
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1903)
"... and tinged with red. This species is distributed from northern Luzon to southern
Mindanao. Family STERCULIACEAE Genus STERCULIA Sterculia foetida L. ..."
2. The timber trees, timber and fancy woods, as also, the forests of India and by Edward Balfour (1870)
"... Dr. Cleghorn in the Jury Reports, noticing Sterculia foetida, ... and Sterculia
foetida, as trees which produce the " Poon" woods of commerce. ..."
3. Reading List on Papermaking Materials by Clarence Jay West (1921)
"Sterculia foetida. Flame tree. Dodge, CR, 1897, page 305. Guilfoyle. Sterculia lucida.
Sycamore. Dodge, CR, 1897. page 305. e Guilfoyle. Sterculia ramosa. ..."
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