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Definition of Hydnocarpus
1. Noun. Medium to large Indonesian and Malaysian trees.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Flacourtiaceae, Flacourtia Family, Flacourtiaceae
Member holonyms: Chaulmoogra, Chaulmoogra Tree, Chaulmugra, Hydnocarpus Kurzii, Taraktagenos Kurzii, Taraktogenos Kurzii, Hydnocarpus Laurifolia, Hydnocarpus Wightiana
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydnocarpus
Literary usage of Hydnocarpus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fatty Foods: Their Practical Examination. A Handbook for the Use of by Edward Richards Bolton, Cecil Revis (1913)
"Seed of hydnocarpus venenata. (Natural size.) Concan to Travancore. (The kernels
represent 75 per cent. of the whole seed.) CONTENT OF OIL. ..."
2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1905)
"The Constituents of the Seeds of hydnocarpus ... The oil of hydnocarpus anthelmintica,
on the other hand, contains, as minor constituents, small amounts of ..."
3. Report by Dr. M.C. Cooke, on the Oil Seeds and Oils in the India Museum, Or by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Great Britain India Office (1876)
"hydnocarpus castanea, Hook. $• Th. Hooker, Fl. Ind. i. 197. Hab. ... and hydnocarpus
octandra, Thw., in Ceylon. Myristica Malabarica, Lam. DC. Prod. xiv. ..."
4. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1855)
"This species bears so great a resemblance to hydnocarpus ... its having a larger
number of stamens than are found in the other known species of hydnocarpus. ..."
5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1844)
"This family was some years ago indicated by Mr. Brown in a verbal communication
to M. Zuccarini, in which he referred hydnocarpus and ..."
6. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"... hydnocarpus oil, obtained from the seeds of hydnocarpus ... the fat obtained
from hydnocarpus ..."
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