Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small genus of trees or large shrubs, natural order Bignoniaceæ, natives of the tropics.

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  • noun a genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches

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Examples

  • The fruits of the crescentia and the lecythis serve as vessels for containing food, while the spathes of the palms, and the bark of trees, furnish caps and garments without a seam.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • Et quod forestarii et viridarii Forestae praedictae post requisitionem per ipsum Willielmum Skynne eisdem factam apud Curiam domini Regis infra Forestam praedictam tentam vocatam Le Speech Court, debent ire videre et appunctuare boscum et maeremium in vastis et communibus Forestae praedictae sic ut praefertur crescentia praedictis necessariis reedificationibus et reparationibus suis dicti mesuagii et aliorum edificiorum suorum supradictorum et eidem Willielmo Skynne inde allocationem facere.

    The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account 1846

  • The fruits of the crescentia and the lecythis serve as vessels for containing food, while the spathes of the palms, and the bark of trees, furnish caps and garments without a seam.

    Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

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