Definition of Conocarpus

1. Noun. Monotypic genus of tropical American trees: button tree.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Conocarpus

Connecticut River
Connecticuter
Connecticuters
Connel
Connell
Connell's suture
Connels
Connemara heath
Conner
Connery
Connie
Connochaetes
Connolly
Connor
Connors
Conocarpus
Conocarpus erectus
Conoclinium
Conoclinium coelestinum
Conodonta
Conodontophorida
Conopodium
Conopodium denudatum
Conor
Conoy
Conrad
Conrad Aiken
Conrad Potter Aiken

Literary usage of Conocarpus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1917)
"In the background, stretching above these two outer species, appears the silvery white and light green of the Avicennia and the conocarpus. ..."

2. Report by Dr. M.C. Cooke, on the Gums, Resins, Oleo-resins, and Resinous by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1874)
"... are mixed gums, containing a large proportion of what appears to be the gum of conocarpus ... conocarpus ..."

3. The Bahama Islands by George Burbank Shattuck, Geographical Society of Baltimore (1905)
"conocarpus-MANGROVE FORMATION.—Here the growth is not dense and is ... Except near the lake shore, the growth is pure conocarpus, but on the water's edge is ..."

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