snowdrop treen.
1. The Virginian fringe-tree, Chionanthus virginica.
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snowdrop tree1731
fringe-tree1775
old man's beard1797
snow-flower1862
fringe-flower1882
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Arbor Zeylanica,..the Snow~drop Tree... This Tree is very hardy in respect to Cold, standing abroad in the open Air.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Snow-drop-tree, a very beautiful American tree, which bears the cold of our climate in the open air.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. Snow-drop-tree, the English name of a genus of trees, called by botanists chionanthus.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 327.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 270/2 Chionanthus, the Snowdrop tree of North America [etc.].
2. A North American styraceous tree or shrub of the genus Halesia, bearing clusters of drooping white flowers.
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halesia?1756
silver bell1785
snowdrop tree1813
1813 H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis 46 Silverbell tree, or Four-winged Snow-drop tree.
1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. at Halesia Four-winged Halesia, or Snow-drop Tree.
1831 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. I. 123 The Snow-Drop Tree, Silver-Bell Tree, or Wild Olive.
1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. §509 Halesia tetraptera, another North American plant, is called the Snowdrop-tree, on account of its numerous white bell-shaped blossoms.
1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 320 The snow-drop tree..is one of the hardiest of North American trees.
3. A West Indian tree (see quots.).
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persea1601
mahoe1666
poison berry1672
white mangrove1683
maiden plum1696
angelin1704
garlic-pear1725
milkwood-tree1725
Jack-in-the-box1735
cherimoya1736
rattle bush1750
galapee1756
genip1756
lace bark1756
sunfruit1787
wild orange1802
hog-nut1814
mountain pride1814
savannah wattle1814
mora1825
rubber tree1826
mayflower1837
bastard manchineel1838
long john1838
seringa1847
sack tree1849
jumbie tree1860
jumbie bean1862
king-tree1863
gauze-tree1864
mountain green1864
snowdrop tree1864
strong bark1864
switch-sorrel1864
candle-tree1866
maypole1866
angelique1873
poisonwood1884
porkwood1884
1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 787/2 Snowdrop tree, Hænianthus incrassatus.
1889 Cent. Dict. at Linociera L. incrassata of Jamaica, a large tree with panicles of white flowers, is called snowdrop-tree.
4. African snowdrop tree, = snowdrop n. 2 (quot. 1891).
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1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II.
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