Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The castor-oil plant. See cut under
castor-oil . - noun Same as
illupi . - noun Same as
oil-palm . - noun The Chinese varnish-tree, whose wood yields an important oil. See
Aleurites and tung-oil. - noun Probably the stone-pine, Pinus Pinea (Isa. xli. 19).
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Examples
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African oil-tree rose above the mass, with leaves fifteen feet in length upon its stalk, the latter studded with sharp thorns; the bombax, or silk-cotton-tree, filled the wind, as it swept by, with the fine down of its seeds; the pungent odors of the pendanus, the
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The Poonga oil-tree, the new and old leaves the colour of new copper, and the mature the darkest of green, bears spikes of pale lavender flowers, and makes a decided blotch among the light green succulent leaves of the native cabbage (SCAEVOLA KOENIGII), with its strange white flowers and milk-white fruit.
Tropic Days 2003
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The Poonga oil-tree, the new and old leaves the colour of new copper, and the mature the darkest of green, bears spikes of pale lavender flowers, and makes a decided blotch among the light green succulent leaves of the native cabbage (SCAEVOLA KOENIGII), with its strange white flowers and milk-white fruit.
Tropic Days 1887
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'I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah-tree, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, and the pine, and the box-tree together' (Isa 41: 19).
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658
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