cow tree
See also: cow-tree
English
Etymology
Compare Spanish palo de vaca.
Noun
- Any of various trees:
- Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., a tree of South America that yields a nourishing milky fluid when cut.
- Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template. in the family Apocynaceae, a tropical rainforest tree native to Colombia.
- Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., the Ceylon cow tree.
- Manilkara bidentata, the massaranduba.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cow tree”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)