Lexic.us

Definition of Spice tree

1. Noun. Tree bearing aromatic bark or berries.

2. Noun. Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spice Tree

spic and span spica spica bandage spicae spicas spicate spicated spiccato spiccato bowing spiccatos

spice spice bush spice cake spice cookie spice rack spice tree (current term) spice up spiceberries spiceberry spicebush

spicebushes spiced spiceless spicemill spicenut spicenuts spicer spiceries spicers spicery

Literary usage of Spice tree

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Congo and Other Poems by Vachel Lindsay (1914)
"THE SPICE-TREE This is the song The spice-tree sings: "Hunger and fire, ... The spice-tree spreads And its boughs come down Shadowing village and farm and ..."

2. The Congo and Other Poems by Vachel Lindsay (1914)
"THE SPICE-TBEE This is the song The spice-tree sings: "Hunger and fire, Hunger and fire, Sky-born Beauty — Spice of desire," Under the spice-tree Watch and ..."

3. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland: From the Earliest to the Present Time by James Grant Wilson (1876)
"THE SPICE-TREE. The spice-tree lives iu the garden green; Beside it the fountain now«; And a fair bird sits the boughs between, And sings his melodious woes ..."

4. The Message of the Trees: An Anthology of Leaves and Branches by Maud Cuney-Hare, William Stanley Braithwaite (1918)
"The spice-tree spreads And its boughs come down Shadowing village and farm and town. And none can see But the pure of heart The great green leaves And the ..."

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