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Definition of Bonduc tree
1. Noun. Tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries.
Terms within: Bonduc Nut, Nicker Nut, Nicker Seed
Group relationships: Caesalpinia, Genus Caesalpinia
Generic synonyms: Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bonduc Tree
Literary usage of Bonduc tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scientific Monthly by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"Perhaps I may be laughed at in turn, for I think they may be what I wish, seeds
of the bonduc tree, (Kentucky coffee tree), which thou picked up in thy ..."
2. Forget Not Mee & My Garden...": Selected Letters, 1725-1768, of Peter by Peter Collinson (2002)
"Phaps I may be laughed at in my Turn for I think they may be what I Wish, Seeds
of the bonduc tree \Gymnocladus dioica, Kentucky Coffee Tree] which thou ..."
3. Useful and Ornamental Planting by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) (1832)
"Bonduc-tree, 101 Branches of forest-trees, when to be pruned, 41—effects of
separating large ones from the bole of a tree, 64—of oaks fifty years old and ..."
4. Materia Indica, Or, Some Account of Those Articles which are Employed by the by Whitelaw Ainslie (1826)
"... the smooth bonduc tree, is much prized in many eastern countries, particularly
in Java, as well for its excellent edible legume, as its valuable root ..."
5. Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque: During Four-and-twenty by Fanny Parkes Parlby (1850)
"Other rosaries are formed of the grey nut, the seed of the bonduc-tree. During the
fair time, you will see turners sitting on the sands and turning these ..."
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