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Definition of Devil tree
1. Noun. Evergreen tree of eastern Asia and Philippines having large leathery leaves and small green-white flowers in compact cymes; bark formerly used medicinally.
Group relationships: Alstonia, Genus Alstonia
Generic synonyms: Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devil Tree
Literary usage of Devil tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Savage-club Papers by Savage Club (London, England), Savage club, London (1868)
"DEVIL-TREE, as might be expected, is of different aspect from any other tree that
grows. It is usually a tree of gigantic growth, and sound and green as any ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1853)
"One day, being at work in the woods, and feeling thirsty, ho determined to pluck
a cocoa-nut from a devil-tree, let what would como of it. ..."
3. A Transformed Colony by Thomas Joshua Alldridge (1910)
"... where there was a large cotton tree known as " the devil tree.'' The position
of our troops was very favourable for firing on the town, but the natives ..."
4. The Bookman (1898)
"Readers of sentiment will find a relief from the performances of the " Devil
Tree" in a well-sustained love story, for there is a beautiful princess and ..."
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