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Definition of Orites excelsa
1. Noun. Australian tree having alternate simple leaves (when young they are pinnate with prickly toothed margins) and slender axillary spikes of white flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Orites Excelsa
Literary usage of Orites excelsa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1904)
"orites excelsa—Presence of Aluminum ... HG Smith records the occurrence of large
quantities of aluminum in one of the " silky oaks," orites excelsa, ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1904)
"orites excelsa—Presence of Aluminum Succinate.—In a communication to the Royal
Society of New South Wales, HG Smith records the occurrence of large ..."
3. The Indian Forester (1896)
"The commonest tree in the Dorrigo Forest Reserve is one known to botanists as
orites excelsa, and its wood usually passes as silky oak. ..."
4. Forestry Handbook by R. Dalrymple Hay, Joseph Henry Maiden (1917)
"The commonest tree in the Dorrigo Forest Reserve is one known to botanists as
orites excelsa, and its wood usually passes as silky oak. ..."
5. New Zealand Forestry by David Ernest Hutchins (1919)
"orites excelsa, the other Silky Oak of Australia, should be planted with Grevillea
robusta. It is even lighter in weight and equally ornamental. ..."
6. Wood: A Manual of the Natural History and Industrial Applications of the by George Simonds Boulger (1908)
"... Mountain,] and to orites excelsa [See Oak, Silky.] Ash, Rock, of Cape Colony.
Sec Els, Klip. Ash, Water, Swamp, or Arkansas ..."
7. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1903)
"... aluminium in large quantities in its construction, and thus differs in this
respect from all other Phanerogams. This plant, orites excelsa, R.; Br., ..."
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