osage orange

English

Alternative forms

Osage orange, osage-orange

Noun

osage orange (plural osage oranges)

The tree Maclura pomifera, noted for its large, dense, wrinkly, bright green and unpalatable fruit, once a popular hedge tree in the United States.
The fruit of this tree.

Synonyms

(Maclura pomifera tree): bodark, bois d'arc, cumball tree, hedge tree
(fruit): cumball hedgeapple

Translations

tree

Cheyenne: heóvekâhamaxe

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