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Definition of Box elder
1. Noun. Common shade tree of eastern and central United States.
Generic synonyms: Maple
Specialized synonyms: Acer Negundo Californicum, California Box Elder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Box Elder
Literary usage of Box elder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of the Interior (1872)
"Fragments of Crinoid columns; box elder Station, Platte River. 3. ... (fragments
of an undetermined species) ; box elder Station, Platte River. ..."
2. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"... THE box elder (Acer Negundo) The only maple with a compound leaf is this one.
The opposite buils nd leaves and the key fruit! are family characteristics ..."
3. Tullidge's Histories, (volume II) Containing the History of All the Northern by Edward Wheelock Tullidge (1889)
"box elder STIKE, The two Counties of box elder and Weber being so ... But in
1854-55, Lorenzo Snow having taken fifty families to locate at box elder, ..."
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