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Definition of Nut tree
1. Noun. Tree bearing edible nuts.
Generic synonyms: Angiospermous Tree, Flowering Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nut Tree
Literary usage of Nut tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"The cocoa- nut tree is of the palm genus ; there are se- Teral species of them,
which grow naturally in the torrid zone. The cocoa-nut tree is, by no means, ..."
2. Typee: Areal Romance of the South Sea by Herman Melville (1892)
"... Climate — The Cocoa-nut Tree — Singular modes of climbing it—An agile young
Chief—Fearlessness of the Children—Too-Too and the Cocoa-nut Tree —The Birds ..."
3. The coral island by Robert Michael Ballantyne (1884)
"... difficulties overcome—The water garden—Curious creatures of the sea—The
tank —Candles missed very much, and the candle-nut tree discovered—Wonderful ..."
4. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1846)
"W. HAMILTON, MB THE cashew-nut tree, or Anacardium occidentale, must not be
confounded, from the resemblance it bears to the vulgar name of common ..."
5. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1818)
"... is constructed of the cocoa-nut leaf, even in the most remote districts, on
the approach of an European traveller. A cocoa-nut tree planted on ..."
6. Polynesian Researches, During a Residence of Nearly Eight Years in the by William Ellis (1833)
"... of dressing the arrow-root—Appearance and value of the cocoa- nut tree—Several
stages of growth in which the fruit ia used—Manufacture of cocoanut oil. ..."
7. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1872)
"In short, the cocoa-nut tree is one of the most useful products of the tropical
... The cocoa-nut tree is itself one genus of palm, but the kind now under ..."
8. The Travels of Ludovico Di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and by Lodovico de Varthema, John Winter Jones, George Percy Badger (1863)
"This is, obviously, the Cocoa-nut tree, ... The cocoa- nut tree attains a height
of from sixty to one hundred feet, and a diameter of one or two feet. ..."
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