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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several often thorny North American trees or shrubs of the genus Sideroxylon (formerly Bumelia), especially S. lanuginosum or S. lycioides of the southern United States, having very hard wood and black fleshy fruit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants, of the natural order Sapotaceœ.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun deciduous or evergreen American shrubs small trees having very hard wood and milky latex
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin Būmelia, former genus name, from Latin būmelia, ash tree, from Greek boumeliā : bous, cow; see gwou- in Indo-European roots + meliā, ash.]
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