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Definition of Bottle tree
1. Noun. An Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton.
Group relationships: Brachychiton, Genus Brachychiton
Specialized synonyms: Brachychiton Acerifolius, Flame Durrajong, Flame Tree, Sterculia Acerifolia, Brachychiton Australis, Broad-leaved Bottletree, Flame Tree, Brachychiton Populneus, Currajong, Kurrajong, Brachychiton Rupestris, Narrow-leaved Bottletree, Queensland Bottletree, Sterculia Rupestris
Generic synonyms: Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bottle Tree
Literary usage of Bottle tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In Savage Isles and Settled Lands: Malaysia, Australasia and Polynesia, 1888 by Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell (1892)
"The ' bunya-bunya ' is another odd tree ; it looks like a cross between a fir-tree
and a ' monkey puzzle,' BOTTLE-TREE AND GRASS-TREES. and has a fruit much ..."
2. Cassell's Picturesque Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris (1889)
"... and the Bottle-Tree. PICTURESQUE Australasia and nothing more than occasional
references to the gum- tree ! Hamlet with the Ghost left out! ..."
3. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by Howard Willoughby (1886)
"Small space has been left for a notice of such marvels as the bottle-tree, and
such beauties of Australian vegetation as the flame-tree. ..."
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