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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A melaleuca tree (Melaleuca cajuputi) of Southeast Asia and Australia whose leaves yield an essential oil.
  • noun The oil obtained from this tree, used as a flavoring and in cosmetics and medicinal preparations.
  • noun Any of several other melaleucas, especially M. leucadendra or M. quinquenervia, which is naturalized in southern Florida.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small myrtaceous tree or shrub of the Moluccas and neighboring islands, Melaleuca Cajuputi or minor, a variety of M. Leucadendron or a distinct species, with lanceolate aromatic leaves and odorless flowers in spikes. Also written cajuput.
  • noun The spice-tree of California: so named on account of the properties of its oil. See spice-tree.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See cajuput.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Alternative form of cajuput.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Ultimately (partly via Dutch kajoe poetih) from Malay (Indonesian dialect) kayu putih : kayu, wood + putih, white (equivalent to Malaysian Malay puteh).]

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