Definition of Baphia

1. Noun. Small genus of shrubs and lianas and trees of Africa and Madagascar.

Exact synonyms: Genus Baphia
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Papilionoideae, Subfamily Papilionoideae
Member holonyms: African Sandalwood, Baphia Nitida, Camwood

Lexicographical Neighbors of Baphia

Banquine
Banstead
Bantam
Bantam work
Banti's disease
Banti's syndrome
Bantingism
Bantoid
Bantoid language
Bantu
Bantu-speaking
Banyumasan
Baoding
Baotou
Baoulé
Baphia
Baphia nitida
Baphomet
Bapticostal
Baptisia
Baptisia australis
Baptisia lactea
Baptisia tinctoria
Baptist
Baptist Church
Baptist denomination
Baptistic
Baptistic doctrine
Baptists

Literary usage of Baphia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sketch of the Forestry of West Africa with Particular Reference to Its by Sir Cornelius Alfred Moloney (1887)
"WEST African dye-woods are chiefly represented or known in the trade as camwood (baphia nitida), barwood, and redwood. In the Gaboon and that quarter I ..."

2. The River Congo: From Its Mouth to Bólóbó; with a General Description of the by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1895)
"... descending in glittering drops on the tree-covered baphia nitida. islands, and forming under the sun's rays fitful gleams of rainbow colours that at ..."

3. The Genera of Recent Mollusca: Arranged According to Their Organization by Henry Adams, Arthur Adams (1858)
"Of baphia there are two undoubted species in the fresh- waters of Europe, besides numerous reputed species; all the others are from the rivers and lakes of ..."

4. The Microscopy of Technical Products by Thomas Franz Hanausek (1907)
"Camwood, or African Red Wood, from baphia nitida ... B. pubescens Hook. f. and other species of baphia. 8. Barwood, or African Sandalwood, from Pterocarpus ..."

5. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"Two species of baphia, (B. nitida, Afz., and B. pubescens, Hook, f.), both natives of the coast region of Upper Guinea and therefore likely to occur also in ..."

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