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Definition of Kola nut tree

1. Noun. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine; source of cola extract.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kola Nut Tree

Literary usage of Kola nut tree

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

1. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Tropical Africa, nat. in West Indies. Kola-nut tree. Seeds, Kola-nut, Cola-nut, Female Cola, Soudan Coffee*, Guru (Gourou, Gooroo), ..."

2. Tropical Agriculture: A Treatise on the Culture, Preparation, Commerce and by Peter Lund Simmonds (1889)
"Hence the introduction of the tree into the The Cola or Kola nut-tree (Sterculia acuminata), whose habitat is all along the West African coast, ..."

3. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1854)
"... or monkey-bread-fruit tree, with its pendant clusters; there is the kola-nut tree, whose pods are so precious to the native ; there is the shea-butter ..."

4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1907)
"... the kola nut tree (Cola acuminata) from West Africa, the seeds of which are so widely used as a stimulant in aerated beverages. Of ornamental trees. ..."

5. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1907)
"... the kola nut tree (Cola acuminata) from West Africa, the seeds of which are so widely used as a stimulant in aerated beverages. ..."

6. Liberia by Harry Hamilton Johnston, Otto Stapf (1906)
"INIA ACUMINATA 2 the tree is covered with these scarlet-purple flowers that have fallen from their slender stalks. The kola nut tree is indigenous to ..."

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