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Definition of Butea frondosa
1. Noun. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.
Group relationships: Butea, Genus Butea
Generic synonyms: Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Butea Frondosa
Literary usage of Butea frondosa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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 frondosa ..."
2. 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, ..."
3. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"Argyreia speciosa, Swt. PALAS GUM, or Pulas gond or Dhak ka jond, is the produce
of butea frondosa, in ruby r, I, transparent grains of irregular tears. ..."
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 frondosa ..."
5. The Timber Trees, Timber and Fancy Woods: As Also the Forests of India and by Edward Balfour (1862)
"The flowers and gum of butea frondosa arc valuable in the arts, and the latter in
... This is an immense creeper with (lowers resembling the butea frondosa. ..."
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