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silver-tree
Also silver tree.
1. A tree with silvery lanceolate leaves (Leucadendron argenteum), native to Cape Province, South Africa.
1731Medley Kolben's Cape G. Hope II. 224 The Silver Tree... These trees..are, particularly, much seen about Constantia. 1785G. Forster tr. Sparrman's Voy. Cape G. Hope (1786) I. 32 The silver-tree, as it is called, exhibited the whole year throughout its glossy white, or silver gray leaves. 1845–50A. H. Lincoln Lect. Bot. 145 The Silver-tree (Protea argentea) has soft leaves resembling satin, of a silver colour. 1893K. A. Sanborn S. California 159 To S. Africa they are indebted for the silver tree.
2. A West Indian tree or shrub belonging to the genus Eugenia.
1756P. Browne Jamaica (1789) 240 The shrubby Philadelphus, with Myrtle leaves; or the Silver Tree... This little tree is frequent in the red hills.
3. An Australian forest-tree.
1889J. H. Maiden Useful Pl. 604 Tarrietia argyrodendron,..Silver Tree. |