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Definition of Ivory tree

1. Noun. Tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ivory Tree

Literary usage of Ivory tree

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

1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... Montalvan and Navarrete ; in English, Southey, Lord Holland, and especially Ticknor in his " History of Spanish Literature." VEGETABLE ivory tree, See ..."

2. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1864)
"(See PALM OIL.) This palm, according to Lindley, though a native of Guinea, is now common in tropical America. The vegetable ivory tree (phytelephas, ..."

3. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1865)
"... you can pronounce it, very much like breastpin, but it is the botanical name, we believe, of the vegetable Ivory-Tree, which is a South American Palm. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"The tree is also known as ivory-tree Pala and palay. The seeds are said to be used in dyeing, and the leaves, with the seeds of Cassia tora, ..."

5. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"... and like that other species of the genus, is used for small articles of turnery. The tree is also known as ivory-tree, Pala, and palay. ..."

6. Explorations and Adventures in Honduras: Comprising Sketches of Travel in by William Vincent Wells (1857)
"On this trip, too, I observed for the first time a vegetable ivory-tree, which, however, grows all over Olancho. The fruit of the tree is a rough mass or ..."

7. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"... important of which is P. macrocarpa, which furnishes the ivory nuts of commerce. The tree is found in the northern parts of South Vegetable ivory tree ..."

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