Definition of Cowtree

1. a type of tree [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cowtree

cowritten
cowrote
cowry
cows
cows' milk
cowshed
cowsheds
cowskin
cowskins
cowslip
cowslipped
cowslips
cowson
cowsons
cowtree (current term)
cowtrees
cowwheat
cowwheats
cowy
cowyard
cox
coxa
coxa adducta
coxa plana
coxa valga
coxae
coxal
coxalgia

Literary usage of Cowtree

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

1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"289), together with small quantities of pimelic and suberic acids. cowtree-wax, obtained by evaporation from the milk of the cow-tree (Palo de Vana, ..."

2. Physical Geography by Arnold Guyot (1885)
"The food-producing plants, indigenous to this zone, include the date, the sago, and the cocoa palm ; the bread fruit and the cowtree ; the plantain or ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Soap and Candles by Carl Deite, Alwin Engelhardt, Karl Schaedler (1888)
"572 Waxes of vegetable origin ; Japan-wax, melting and congealing points 573 Fig-wax or Getah-wax ; cowtree-wax ..."

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