Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tree of the genus Celtis of the nettle family, chiefly the Old World species C. australis and the North American C. occidentalis: so named from the aspect of the leaves.
- noun An Australian tree of the genus Laportea.
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Examples
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In the higher part of the deciduous forest belt, stands are dominated by aspen (Populus tremula) and the "nettle-tree" (Celtis caucasia).
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I have watered the red huckleberry, the sand cherry and the nettle-tree, the red pine and the black ash, the white grape and the yellow violet, which might have withered else in dry seasons.
Walden 2004
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I tried, however, taking botany as my guide; it suggested to me, as substitutes for the mulberry, the members of closely-related families: the elm, the nettle-tree, the nettle, the pellitory.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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I have watered the red huckleberry, the sand cherry and the nettle-tree, the red pine and the black ash, the white grape and the yellow violet, which might have withered else in dry seasons.
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I have watered the red huckleberry, the sand cherry and the nettle-tree, the red pine and the black ash, the white grape and the yellow violet, which might have withered else in dry seasons.
Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839
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_samarce_ -- the shady nettle-tree (_Celtis crassifolia_), with its large cordate leaves and black drupes -- and last, though not least interesting, the water-loving cotton-wood (_Populus angulata_).
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850
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