acacia-tree

A jumping spider, Bagheera kiplingi, has been found (in populations in Mexico and Costa Rica) to feed on bits of acacia tree sprouting leaflets, dodging resident acacia-tree ants.

Archive 2008-08-01 2008

They stood for a moment facing each other in the shadow of an acacia-tree with very moonlit blossoms, and the smoke from their cigarettes mingled in the air between them.

To Let 2004

A blackbird broke in on his reverie with an evening song — a great big fellow up in that acacia-tree.

To Let 2004

Qaris, the head steward, steeled himself to approach the queen, who was sitting at the foot of the acacia-tree where she had placed her letter to Seqen.

The War of the Crowns Christian Jacq 2002

Ahhotep sat with them at the foot of an acacia-tree armed with fearsome thorns.

The War of the Crowns Christian Jacq 2002

There is in front of the house a square reservoir of water, with a current flowing in and out of it; this is bordered by large cypress-trees, and in a corner near the house wall grows a large acacia-tree, the light-green colour and drooping foliage of which gave somewhat of an Indian appearance to the scene.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn

With many fears and a beating heart I at last alighted on an acacia-tree.

The Nursery, May 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People Various

"And, for my part, there are as many holes in my cloak as thorns on that cursed acacia-tree," replied I by way of consolation.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

For me the shadow of an old bowed acacia-tree, held together by iron bands, was over the history of Heathcliff; but the forms and shapes of that mad drama gathered to themselves the lineaments of all my wildest dreams.

Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917

Another garden spreads before the new wing on the right, and a fine acacia-tree is over the gateway.

A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903