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Definition of Frijolito
1. Noun. Shrub or small tree having pinnate leaves poisonous to livestock and dense racemes of intensely fragrant blue flowers and red beans.
Group relationships: Genus Sophora, Sophora
Generic synonyms: Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frijolito
Literary usage of Frijolito
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by Smithsonian Institution, Dept. of the Interior, United States Dept. of the Interior, United States National Museum, United States (1919)
"Railroad cut near stream about midway between Rio Frijol and Rio frijolito.
Oligocene (Culebra formation): Foet ..."
2. Check List of the Forest Trees of the United States: Their Names and Ranges by George Bishop Sudworth (1898)
"de G. frijolito. RANGE.—Southern Texas (Matagorda Bay) to New Mexico (mountain
... Coral Bean; frijolito (Tex.). Sophora amnis Torr. & Gr. Sophora. RANGE. ..."
3. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"The frijolito, or Coral Bean (Sophora secundiflora, DC), is a small, slender,
narrow-headed tree, with persistent, locust-like leaves, and fragrant, ..."
4. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"... the heads of the major east- and west-trending streams (Arroyo frijolito and
Hoya del Packard, respectively), the saddle between the highest peaks of ..."
5. Manual of the Trees of North America (exclusive of Mexico) by Charles Sprague Sargent (1922)
"frijolito. Coral Bean. Leaves persistent, covered when they unfold, especially
on the lower surface of the leaflets, with silky white hairs, and at maturity ..."
6. Annual Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission by Isthmian Canal Commission (U.S.), United States President (1901-1909 : Roosevelt), Canal Zone Governor (1910)
"61) was constructed at the frijolito River, station 450. A double 12 by 15
reinforced concrete box was constructed on the Paraiso-Corozal section, ..."
7. Frederick Law Olmsted, Landscape Architect, 1822-1903 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Theodora Kimball Hubbard (1922)
"... it bears a cluster like those 1 This plant has been identified by the Botanist
of the US Bureau of Plant Industries as that commonly called frijolito or ..."
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