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Definition of Tung tree

1. Noun. Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil.

Definition of Tung tree

1. Noun. Any of several East Asian trees, of the genus ''Aleurites'', cultivated for their seeds which are a source of tung oil. ¹

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Literary usage of Tung tree

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

1. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanburgy (1879)
"724), the well-known tung tree of the Chinese. ... The oil of the tung tree is also extremely remarkable on account of its chemical properties as shown by ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"(2) Aleurites cordata, or tung-tree of China, Japan and tropical South Asia, at Bourbon, Zanzibar, West Indies and the United States, yields Chinese-Wood ..."

3. Paint Researches and Their Practical Application by Henry Alfred Gardner (1917)
"It is of the same family as the tung tree, and the oil closely resembles tung oil in analytical constants, but does not have the peculiar properties of ..."

4. Methods of Organic Analysis by Henry Clapp Sherman (1912)
"Tung oil, also called Chinese or Japanese wood oil, is pressed from the nuts of the tung tree. According to Eunis the use of this oil in the United States ..."

5. Chemistry of Materials of the Machine and Building Industries by Robert Benjamin Leighou (1917)
"This is obtained by pressure from the nut of the tung tree native to China and Japan. The color of the oil varies from pale yellow to dark brown and it has ..."

6. Chemistry of Materials of the Machine and Building Industries by Robert Benjamin Leighou (1917)
"This is obtained by pressure from the nut of the tung tree native to China and Japan. The color of the oil varies from pale yellow to dark brown and it has ..."

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