Definition of Butea frondosa

1. Noun. East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye.

Exact synonyms: Butea Monosperma, Dak, Dhak, Palas
Group relationships: Butea, Genus Butea
Generic synonyms: Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Butea Frondosa

Bushwoman
Bushwomen
Busoga
Busquet's disease
Buss disease
Bussard ramjet
Bussard ramjets
Buster
Buster Keaton
Busy Lizzie
Butazolidin
Butcher
Butcher Cumberland
Butea
Butea frondosa
Buteo
Buteo buteo
Buteo jamaicensis
Buteo lagopus
Buteo lineatus
Butler
Butlerian
Butlerians
Buxaceae

Literary usage of Butea frondosa

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

1. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"The insects are found on the small branches and petioles of the folds tree (Butea frondosa) ... butea frondosa ..."

2. The Materia medica of the Hindus: Compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works by Udoy Chand Dutt (1877)
"... equal parts, boat them together into a paste with water ard administer with butter-milk.1 The gum of butea frondosa, row used as a substitute for kino, ..."

3. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"Argyreia speciosa, Swt. PALAS GUM, or Pulas gond or Dhak ka jond, is the produce of butea frondosa, in ruby r, I, transparent grains of irregular tears. ..."

4. Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque: During Four-and-twenty by Fanny Parkes Parlby (1850)
"... Snake—The Pinnace—City of Allahabad—The Pillar in the Fort—Sealing-wax—Butea Frondosa—The ... butea frondosa ..."

5. The Timber Trees, Timber and Fancy Woods: As Also the Forests of India and by Edward Balfour (1862)
"The flowers and gum of butea frondosa arc valuable in the arts, and the latter in ... This is an immense creeper with (lowers resembling the butea frondosa. ..."

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