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Definition of Cananga odorata
1. Noun. Evergreen Asian tree with aromatic greenish-yellow flowers yielding a volatile oil; widely grown in the tropics as an ornamental.
Group relationships: Cananga, Canangium, Genus Cananga, Genus Canangium
Generic synonyms: Angiospermous Tree, Flowering Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cananga Odorata
Literary usage of Cananga odorata
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)
"A very fine coloured illustration of the cananga odorata is given in the ' Flora
... The cananga odorata is a tree attaining a height of about GO feet, ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"It is obtained by distilling the flowers of cananga odorata, Hooker, ... They smell
like ylang-ylang flowers and are derived also from cananga odorata. ..."
3. Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Modes of by Alfred Henry Allen (1917)
"The tree whose flowers yield this much valued oil is cananga odorata, which grows
to perfection in the Philippine Islands, more especially in Manila. ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1882)
"cananga odorata is a tree growing to the height of about sixty feet, having few
but profuse!}" ~ ramified branches. ..."
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