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Definition of Snowdrop tree

1. Noun. Medium-sized tree of West Virginia to Florida and Texas.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Snowdrop Tree

Literary usage of Snowdrop 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 by Charles Anderson Dana (1876)
"The best known species is the four- winged snowdrop tree (H. tetraptera), so called from the four wings to the fruit; it is found from Virginia southward; ..."

2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The best known species is the four- winged snowdrop tree {H. tetraptera), ... snowdrop tree, a name given to shrubs or email trees of the genus Halesia, ..."

3. Tree Guide: Trees East of the Rockies by Julia Ellen Rogers (1914)
"Another snowdrop tree, M. diptera, grows along the south Atlantic and Gulf coasts and follows the. Mississippi to Arkansas. It is hardy in cultivation no ..."

4. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"Flowers white, in pendulous panicles. Drupe purple. The corolla is sometimes 5 or 6-cleft. snowdrop tree. Fringe Tree. 3. FRAXINUS. Linn. ..."

5. Our Native Trees and how to Identify Them: A Popular Study of Their Habits by Harriet Louise Keeler (1900)
"The Snowdrop-tree is perfectly hardy on the southern shore of Lake Erie where it forms a small tree with a beautiful, low, broad head. ..."

6. Trees and Shrubs: An Abridgment of the Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum by John Claudius Loudon (1875)
"Tim snowdrop tree, Silver Hell Tree. Amcr. Kitni-ii'mct. Hot. Mag., t. 1110.: Hot. Cub., t. 1173. : the plate in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., »oL ri. ..."

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