Definition of California box elder

1. Noun. Maple of the Pacific coast of the United States; fruits are white when mature.


Lexicographical Neighbors of California Box Elder

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California blackberries
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California box elder (current term)
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Literary usage of California box elder

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

1. The California Fruits and how to Grow Them: A Manual of Methods which Have by Edward James Wickson (1891)
"Along the streams are the California box elder or soft maple (Negundo Californicum}, the Pacific yew (Taxus ..."

2. The Elements of Forestry: Designed to Afford Information Concerning the by Franklin Benjamin Hough (1882)
"THE CALIFORNIA Box ELDER (Negundo Californiensis). This is commonly a small tree, but rarely it grows to the height of 70 feet. It occurs along streams, ..."

3. Practical Forestry: A Treatise on the Propagation, Planting, and Cultivation by Andrew Samuel Fuller (1914)
"The California box elder (Negundo Californicum) resembles the Eastern species very closely, and was previously considered to be identical, ..."

4. Report by California Division of Forestry (1919)
"Green ash, catalpa, Fremont cottonwood, California box elder, hack- berry, English elm, Huntington elm, mesquite, Russian mulberry, oriental plane, ..."

5. Journal by California Legislature (1883)
"... that few trees can equal the quiet, elegant, and dignified expression of the California box elder. These qualities, so manifest to all, render it one of ..."

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