Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A North American shrub or small tree, Ptelea trifoliata, belonging to the rue family, having trifoliate leaves, and small greenish-white flowers in terminal cymes.
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In few instances should we have to go far from home to find nearly all that we wanted in beautiful variety -- maples, dogwoods, scarlet and chestnut oaks, the liquid - amber, the whitewood or tulip-tree, white birch, and horn-beam, or the hop-tree; not to speak of the evergreens and shrubs indigenous to our forests.
The Home Acre Edward Payson Roe 1863
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