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Definition of Sloanea jamaicensis
1. Noun. West Indian timber tree having very hard wood.
Group relationships: Genus Sloanea, Sloanea
Generic synonyms: Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sloanea Jamaicensis
Literary usage of Sloanea jamaicensis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Icones Plantarum: Or Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1844)
"sloanea jamaicensis, Hook. FRUIT. (For a Description and Figure of a flowering
specimen, see our preceding PLATE.) I have ventured to place this fine plant ..."
2. New Guinea: What I Did and what I Saw by Luigi Maria D'Albertis (1880)
"He also supposes the wood is very hard, and in this respect he is right; like
the sloanea jamaicensis, ..."
3. Timber and Timber Trees, Native and Foreign by Thomas Laslett (1894)
"The Iron-wood of Persia is Parrotia persica ; that of the West Indies Sloanea
jamaicensis and species of ..."
4. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1845)
"... Hook., a new Cruciferous genus from New Grenada. Tab. 693 and 694. Sloanea
Jamaicensis, Hook. Tab. 695 and 696. Fruit of the same. Tab. ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute by Royal Commonwealth Society (1879)
"Iron wood sloanea jamaicensis. Ivy Hedera. Jack-in-the-bo x Hernandia sonora.
,, ,, bush Cordia ..."
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