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Definition of Gumbo-limbo

1. Noun. Tropical American tree yielding a reddish resin used in cements and varnishes.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gumbo-limbo

Literary usage of Gumbo-limbo

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

1. The Everglades and Other Essays Relating to Southern Florida by John Clayton Gifford (1912)
"CCORDING to a local rhymester, "the gumbo- limbo, with limbs akimbo, with gum like gumbo, with name a lingo, belongs, I guess, in limbo. ..."

2. Adventure Guide to the Florida Keys and Everglades National Park by Bruce Morris (2004)
"Gumbo-Limbo Trail The half-mile Gumbo-Limbo Trail also begins just past the Royal Palm Visitor ... Wild coffee, gumbo-limbo and orchids are easily spotted. ..."

3. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"gumbo-limbo. See quotation. 1837 [The Indians] make bird-lime from the juice ... Gum Elemi, called by the inhabitants gumbo-limbo, is a large spreading tree ..."

4. Check List of the Forest Trees of the United States: Their Names and Ranges by George Bishop Sudworth (1898)
"Gumbo Limbo. RANGE. — Southern Florida (on the east coast from Cape Canaveral to the southern keys; west coast on Caloosa River and ..."

5. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1915)
"The females from Key West, however, show three different color phases. At Key West this form was common in green herbage or grasses in or near a gumbo limbo ..."

6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1896)
"... kind of wood—gumbo-limbo, probably—were found down toward the middle of the court. Not fur from the remains of these I came across an ingenious anchor. ..."

7. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1890)
"Subsequent observation showed that the ants prefer to build in openings, and that the gumbo limbo is a favorite tree on which to place their nests ..."

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