Definition of Heritiera

1. Noun. Small genus of timber trees of eastern Asia, Australasia and tropical Africa that form large buttresses.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Heritiera

Hercules beetles
Herculæan
Hercynian
Hereford
Hereford and Worcester
Herefords
Herefordshire
Herelle
Herellea
Herero
Hereward
Hering's sinus nerve
Hering's theory of colour vision
Hering-Breuer reflex
Heritiera (current term)
Heritiera littoralis
Heritiera macrophylla
Heritiera trifoliolata
Herkimer
Herlitz
Herlitz syndrome
Herm
Herman
Herman Hollerith
Herman Melville
Herman Northrop Frye
Herman Wouk
Hermann
Hermann's fixative

Literary usage of Heritiera

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

1. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"Heritiera MACROPHYLLA.—Tfa/i. construction of naves and felloes of -»un eut- riages, it is solely because pieces of a dimensions are not procurable. ..."

2. An Illustrated Monograph on Kola by Julius Otto Schlotterbeck, John Vietch Shoemaker (1894)
"Heritiera Littoralis, Aiton—Sterculiaceae. The fruit of this tree could not possibly be mistaken for that of Kola. (See Fij^. lti. ..."

3. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1917)
"It is a pretty wood, but little known and rarely cut except with mixed firewood. Family 7, STERCULIACEAE Genus Heritiera Heritiera LITTORALIS ..."

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