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Definition of Tolu tree
1. Noun. Medium-sized tropical American tree yielding tolu balsam and a fragrant hard wood used for high-grade furniture and cabinetwork.
Group relationships: Genus Myroxylon, Myroxylon
Terms within: Balsam Of Tolu, Tolu, Tolu Balsam
Generic synonyms: Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tolu Tree
Literary usage of Tolu tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1821)
"... in botany, balsam of tolu tree, a genus of the ... T. balsamum, balsam of tolu
tree. It is a native of Spanish America, in the province of Tolu, ..."
2. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanburgy (1879)
"... collect birds and insects, made it a special object, at the urgent request of
one of us (H.), to procure complete specimens of the Balsam of tolu tree. ..."
3. Note-book of Materia Medica, Pharmacology, and Therapeutics by Robert Edmund Scoresby-Jackson (1867)
"... Balsam of tolu tree. Officinal part : A balsam obtained from the stem by
incision ; from the mountains of Tolu, in New Grenada. ..."
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