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Definition of Tung-oil tree
1. Noun. Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil.
Group relationships: Aleurites, Genus Aleurites
Generic synonyms: Angiospermous Tree, Flowering Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tung-oil Tree
Literary usage of Tung-oil tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"It appears to require a warmer climate and more rainfall than the tung oil tree (A.
fordii) . The wood oil tree in size and ..."
2. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"The Tung Oil tree (Aleurites fordii), also known as the Chinese Wood Oil tree,
belongs to the family ..."
3. A Residence Among the Chinese: Inland, on the Coast, and at Sea. Being a by Robert Fortune (1857)
"This," said he, " is the tung-oil tree, which yields a valuable oil, much used
by carpenters ; this is the Lew-san tree (Cryptomeria Japonica), ..."
4. Western China: A Journey to the Great Buddhist Centre of Mount Omei by Virgil Chittenden Hart (1888)
"... green tung-oil tree leaves, and hung upon the trees, where.they hatch almost
immediately. It requires thirteen days of day and night work to make the ..."
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