Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In phytogeography, an alpine typo of tree with short, gnarled, often oblique or horizontal stem, and long serpentine branches bent in all directions, occuring mainly in the tropics.
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Examples
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"The gallus!" answered Solomons, -- "he be a going to have it hung from the great elfin-tree.
My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"The gallus!" answered Solomons, -- "he be a going to have it hung from the great elfin-tree.
My Novel — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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