Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of leguminous plants, natives of the East Indies, containing three or four species, small trees or climbing shrubs, yielding a kind of kino known as butea gum or Bengal kino.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a genus of East Indian trees or shrubs: dhak.
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- noun genus of East Indian trees or shrubs: dhak
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Examples
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Both the latter articles were made of the thick strong leaves of the butea frondosa: larger dishes of several leaves pinned together with thorns, plates and saucers of one leaf with its borders turned up.
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The bandha or mistletoe, upon the mhowa and mango trees, is in full blossom, and adds much to their beauty; the soil is good, and the surface everywhere capable of tillage, with little labour or outlay; for the jungle where it prevails the most is of grass, and the small palas-trees (butea-frondosa) which may be-easily uprooted.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822
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-- Mahomdee, eleven miles, over a level plain of muteear soil of the best quality, well supplied with groves and single trees of the finest kind; but a good deal of the land is out of tillage, and covered with the rank grass, called garur, the roots of which form the fragrant khus, for tatties, in the hot winds; and dhak (butea frondosa) jungle.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822
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