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Definition of Bursera
1. Noun. Type genus of Burseraceae; tropical and subtropical American shrubs and trees some yielding timber and gum elemi.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Burseraceae, Family Burseraceae, Torchwood Family
Member holonyms: Bursera Microphylla, Elephant Tree, Bursera Simaruba, Gumbo-limbo
Definition of Bursera
1. designating a family of shrubs and trees [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bursera
Literary usage of Bursera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Odorographia: A Natural History of Raw Materials and Drugs Used in the by John Charles Sawer (1892)
"It is difficult to say whether other species of bursera yield this oil or not.
Poisson suggests that it is probably obtained also from bursera ..."
2. The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically by Daniel Jay Browne (1846)
"SHE bursera gummifera is an evergreen tree, attaining a height of fifty or sixty
feet, ... In its natural habitat, the bursera gummifera prefers a ..."
3. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1827)
"As the two genera of Amyris and bursera are at present constituted, a botanist may
... The variable features of bursera gummifera, and the early inaccurate ..."
4. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1907)
"bursera simplicifolia DC. Prodr. 2 : 78. 18215. Frequent on dry hillsides near
the southern coast of Jamaica, becoming at least 13 meters high. 4. ..."
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