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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name given to the Pyrus intermedia of northern Europe, and to species of Bauhinia; in Australia, to the Moreton Bay chestnut, Castanospermum Australe; in the United States, sometimes, to Catalpa bignonioides; and in Jamaica, to Erythrina Corrallodendron.

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