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Definition of Bonduc nut
1. Noun. Hard shiny grey seed of a bonduc tree; used for making e.g. jewelry.
Group relationships: Bonduc, Bonduc Tree, Caesalpinia Bonduc, Caesalpinia Bonducella
Generic synonyms: Seed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bonduc Nut
Literary usage of Bonduc nut
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Technologist (1863)
"NATA, THE bonduc nut, AND ITS PROPERTIES. Attention lias recently Ix'eii drawn
in some of the continental and English periodical**, to the medical uses of ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"... very little of it reaching England and France, and none of it the rest of the
Continent of Europe. 3. bonduc nut oil or fever nut oil ..."
3. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society by Bombay Natural History Society (1888)
"Bony coverings or shells protect many seeds. The sea cocoanut and bonduc nut are
carried about by the ocean for months without losing their ..."