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Definition of false mastic in English: false masticnoun A tall tree of Florida, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America, Sideroxylon foetidissimum (family Sapotaceae), which yields a hard wood suitable for construction and furniture and bears yellow flowers with a cheesy smell; also called mastic, mastic-bully.
Origin 1940s; earliest use found in Scientific Monthly. Definition of false mastic in US English: false masticnoun A tall tree of Florida, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America, Sideroxylon foetidissimum (family Sapotaceae), which yields a hard wood suitable for construction and furniture and bears yellow flowers with a cheesy smell; also called mastic, mastic-bully.
Origin 1940s; earliest use found in Scientific Monthly. |