单词 | tallow-tree |
释义 | tallow-treen. A name given to various trees yielding substances resembling tallow; spec. (a) Stillingia sebifera, a euphorbiaceous tree of China, cultivated also in India and the warmer parts of America for the fatty covering of its seeds; (b) Pentadesma butyracea, a guttiferous tree of Sierra Leone, also called butter and tallow tree (butter n.1 Compounds 3); (c) Vateria indica (N.O. Dipterocarpaceæ) of Malabar; (d) = tallow-wood n. at tallow n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian tallow-tree1704 rata1773 rosewood1779 red mahogany1798 ironbark1799 wild orange1802 red gum1803 rewarewa1817 red cedar1818 black-butted gum1820 Huon pine1820 miro1820 oak1821 horoeka1831 hinau1832 maire1832 totara1832 blackbutt1833 marri1833 raspberry jam tree1833 kohekohe1835 puriri1835 tawa1839 hickory1840 whau1840 pukatea1841 titoki1842 butterbush1843 iron gum1844 York gum1846 mangeao1848 myall1848 ironheart1859 lilly-pilly1860 belah1862 flindosa1862 jarrah1866 silky oak1866 teak of New South Wales1866 Tolosa-wood1866 turmeric-tree1866 walking-stick palm1869 tooart1870 queenwood1873 tarairi1873 boree1878 yate1880 axe-breaker1884 bangalay1884 coachwood1884 cudgerie1884 feather-wood1884 forest mahogany1884 maiden's blush1884 swamp mahogany1884 tallow-wood1884 teak of New Zealand1884 wandoo1884 heartwood1885 ivorywood1887 Jimmy Low1887 Burdekin plum1889 corkwood1889 pigeon-berry ash1889 red beech1889 silver beech1889 turnip-wood1891 black bean1895 red bean1895 pinkwood1898 poplar1898 rose mahogany1898 quandong1908 lancewood1910 New Zealand honeysuckle1910 Queensland walnut1919 mahogany gum1944 Australian mahogany1948 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plant, nut, or bean yielding oil > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding oil > African tallow-tree1704 butter and tallow tree1795 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tropical or exotic fruit-tree or -plant > of Asian or South Pacific > other Asian fruit-plants tallow-tree1704 mangosteen1734 langsat1783 cucumber-tree1784 rambai1811 salak1820 wampee1830 tamarind plum1846 jackfruit1847 ivi1862 longan1866 Tahiti chestnut1884 mape1888 calamondin1890 1704 J. Petiver Gazophylacii IV. 53 Ricinus Chinensis Sebifera..China Tallow-tree. 1851 Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. ii. p. vi/1 The tallow-tree of China, the seeds of which furnish a fatty matter manufactured..into candles. c1865 H. Letheby in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 95/1 A solid oil..is obtained from the tallow-tree of Java—probably a species of Bassia. 1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 279 Butter or Tallow tree of West Africa (Pentadesma butyracea, Don).—Fruits yield a yellow greasy juice when cut, which is mixed by the Negroes with their food. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1704 |
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