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Definition of Butea
1. Noun. Genus of East Indian trees or shrubs: dhak.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: Butea Frondosa, Butea Monosperma, Dak, Dhak, Palas
Lexicographical Neighbors of Butea
Literary usage of Butea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Materia medica of the Hindus: Compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works by Udoy Chand Dutt (1877)
"... equal parts, boat them together into a paste with water ard administer with
butter-milk.1 The gum of butea frondosa, row used as a substitute for kino, ..."
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"The insects are found on the small branches and petioles of the folds tree (butea
frondosa) ... butea ..."
3. Flora Indica: Being a Systematic Account of the Plants of British India by Thomas Thomson, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1855)
"The moisture-loving types of Malabar and the Concan do not occur, and the common
trees are butea ..."
4. Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque: During Four-and-twenty by Fanny Parkes Parlby (1850)
"... Snake—The Pinnace—City of Allahabad—The Pillar in the Fort—Sealing-wax—butea
Frondosa—The ... butea ..."
5. Report by Dr. M.C. Cooke, on the Gums, Resins, Oleo-resins, and Resinous by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1874)
"Dr. Roxburgh has fully described the red juice which exudes from fissures and
incisions in both butea, frondosa and B. superba, which afterwards hardens ..."
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