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Definition of Bullock heart
1. Noun. Small tropical American tree bearing a bristly heart-shaped acid tropical fruit.
Terms within: Bullock's Heart, Jamaica Apple
Generic synonyms: Custard Apple, Custard Apple Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bullock Heart
Literary usage of Bullock heart
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Human Physiology by John Call Dalton (1882)
"Transverse section of the bullock's heart in cadaveric rigidity . . 280 62. ...
Left ventricle of bullock's heart; showing deep fibres . . . 282 65. ..."
2. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique: A Laboratory Guide for Medical by John William Henry Eyre (1913)
"Heart muscle (bullock's heart or sheep's heart) is much to be preferred and from
the point of economy, ease and cleanliness of manipulation, and extractive ..."
3. Tales of Terror and Wonder by Matthew Gregory Lewis, Walter Scott, Henry Morley (1887)
"When you dress it for dinner, so hard and so tough, I wish the employ your stern
breast would im- i prove; And the dead bullock's heart, while with onions ..."
4. The Boston Review (1862)
"On inquiring the reason, he was told that she was " witched," and that the
bullock's heart was to keep off the evil spirits from tormenting the child I It ..."
5. A New Malagasy-English Dictionary by James Richardson (1885)
"... a bullock's heart, MENA, red.] An ancient kind of woollen hat resembling a
bullock's heart. ..."
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