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Definition of Bully tree
1. Noun. A tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber.
Terms within: Balata, Gutta Balata
Generic synonyms: Tree
Definition of Bully tree
1. Noun. Any of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceae, such as ''Dipholis nigra'' and species of ''Sapota'' and ''Mimusops''. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Bully tree
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bully Tree
Literary usage of Bully tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hortus Jamaicensis, Or, A Botanical Description, (according to the Linnean by John Lunan (1814)
"'Browne calls this bastard bully tree. He only describes the fruit, as above, small,
... This is the common bastard bully tree, a native of Jamaica, ..."
2. Descriptive Catalogue of the Woods Commonly Employed in this Country for the by Charles Holtzapffel, John Forbes Royle (1852)
"A specimen (at Lloyd's Registry, &c.) of the Booley or Bully-tree, ... The bully-tree
of Guiana is also an Achras. The bastard bully, trees of Jamaica are ..."
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