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Definition of Nephelium
1. Noun. A genus of dicotyledonous trees of the family Sapindaceae that are native to Asia and Australia.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Sapindaceae, Sapindaceae, Soapberry Family
Member holonyms: Nephelium Lappaceum, Rambotan, Rambutan, Rambutan Tree, Nephelium Mutabile, Pulasan, Pulasan Tree, Pulassan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nephelium
Literary usage of Nephelium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Indian Timbers: An Account of the Growth, Distribution, and Uses by James Sykes Gamble (1902)
"... Wood generally soft or moderately hard, even-grained, sometimes hard; no
distinct heartwood except in Schleicher«,, nephelium and ..."
2. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1903)
"Genus nephelium nephelium LAPPACEUM L. USAU OR RAMBUTAN. ... Hefter f states that
the seeds of nephelium lappaceum yield 40 to 48 per cent of rambutan ..."
3. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"Br. nephelium, a genus of plants of the natura I order ... on the lower Badulla
roa<] from Kandy, at no great elevation which flower* in April ; nephelium ..."
4. The Timber Trees, Timber and Fancy Woods: As Also the Forests of India and by Edward Balfour (1862)
"Mr. Menais. (Noie—It is not known to what species Mr. Mendia here alludes. Mr.
Thwaites notices three in Ceylon, viz. nephelium ..."
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