tallowwood
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Noun
tallowwood (usually uncountable, plural tallowwoods)
- An Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus microcorys, whose wood has a greasy feel when cut
- Ximenia americana, a tree of the tropics bearing cherished fruits.
- Synonym: mountain plum
- (uncommon, by extension) The tropical fruit-tree genus Ximenia.
- 1946, Ellwood Scott Harrar, Jacob George Harrar, Guide to Southern Trees, 2nd edition, New York: Dover Publications, published 1962, →ISBN, page 263:
- The Tallowwood family numbers about 27 genera and nearly 150 species of trees, shrubs and lianas scattered throughout the tropical forests of the world. […]
The tallowwoods
Ximenia L.
These are a small genus comprising five species of widely distributed tropical trees and shrubs. One of them, X. americana L., extends northward into southern Florida.
Tallowwood hog-plum
Ximenia americana L.
Derived terms
- tallowwood plum, tallow-wood plum, tallow wood plum (Ximenia americana)
- tallowwood hog-plum (Ximenia americana)
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