cow tree

See also: cow-tree

English

Etymology

Compare Spanish palo de vaca.

Noun

cow tree (plural cow trees)

  1. Any of various trees:
    1. Brosimum utile, a tree of South America that yields a nourishing milky fluid when cut.
    2. Couma macrocarpa in the family Apocynaceae, a tropical rainforest tree native to Colombia.
    3. Gymnema lactiferum, the Ceylon cow tree.
    4. Manilkara bidentata, the massaranduba.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cow tree in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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