Definitions

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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Myrtaceae — the water gum tree.

Etymologies

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New Latin, from Tristan, surname of Jules M. C. Tristan, a French botanist.

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Examples

  • "Tristania nerifolia" amended to _Tristania neriifolia_.

    Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861

  • The subjects were then asked to imagine living on 500 “Tristania” dollars, a fictional currency worth 18 Hong Kong dollars apiece — a budget equal in real value to their Hong Kong budget.

    Primary Sources 2007

  • When drawing up budgets, the subjects scrimped and saved their Tristania dollars but spent their Hong Kong dollars much more freely.

    Primary Sources 2007

  • When drawing up budgets, the subjects scrimped and saved their Tristania dollars but spent their Hong Kong dollars much more freely.

    Primary Sources 2007

  • The subjects were then asked to imagine living on 500 “Tristania” dollars, a fictional currency worth 18 Hong Kong dollars apiece — a budget equal in real value to their Hong Kong budget.

    Primary Sources 2007

  • This effect reversed when the authors made the Tristania dollars the less-valuable currency.

    Primary Sources 2007

  • This effect reversed when the authors made the Tristania dollars the less-valuable currency.

    Primary Sources 2007

  • Some characteristic species from these forests include Tristania obovata, Ploiarium alternifolium, Polyalthia glauca, Stemonurus secundiflorus, Radermachera gigantea, Salacca conferta, Livistona hasseltii, and Cyrtostachys lakka.

    Sumatran peat swamp forests 2008

  • The principal species in forest type five are Tristania obovata, Palaquium cochleariifolium, and Parastemon spicatum, and type six resembles open savanna woodland, with the most abundant species being Dactylocladus stenostachys, Garcinia cuneifolia, Litsea crassifolia, and Parastemon spicatum.

    Borneo peat swamp forests 2008

  • Montane forests, found between 800 and 1,500 m, are dominated by Tristania spp.,

    Palawan rain forests 2008

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