Definition of Sloanea jamaicensis

1. Noun. West Indian timber tree having very hard wood.

Exact synonyms: Break-axe, Breakax, Breakaxe
Group relationships: Genus Sloanea, Sloanea
Generic synonyms: Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sloanea Jamaicensis

Slavs
Sleeping Beauty
Slezsko
Sliabh Luachra
Slick
Sligo
Slinky
Slip Slop Slap
Slippery Nipple
Slippery Nipples
Sliven
Slo-Bid
Sloane Ranger
Sloanea
Sloanea jamaicensis
Sloanie
Sloanies
Sloppy Joe
Slough
Slough of Despond
Slovak
Slovak Cuvac
Slovak Republic
Slovakia
Slovakian
Slovakian monetary unit
Slovaks
Slovene
Slovene alphabet

Literary usage of Sloanea jamaicensis

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

1. Icones Plantarum: Or Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1844)
"sloanea jamaicensis, Hook. FRUIT. (For a Description and Figure of a flowering specimen, see our preceding PLATE.) I have ventured to place this fine plant ..."

2. New Guinea: What I Did and what I Saw by Luigi Maria D'Albertis (1880)
"He also supposes the wood is very hard, and in this respect he is right; like the sloanea jamaicensis, ..."

3. Timber and Timber Trees, Native and Foreign by Thomas Laslett (1894)
"The Iron-wood of Persia is Parrotia persica ; that of the West Indies Sloanea jamaicensis and species of ..."

4. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1845)
"... Hook., a new Cruciferous genus from New Grenada. Tab. 693 and 694. Sloanea Jamaicensis, Hook. Tab. 695 and 696. Fruit of the same. Tab. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute by Royal Commonwealth Society (1879)
"Iron wood sloanea jamaicensis. Ivy Hedera. Jack-in-the-bo x Hernandia sonora. ,, ,, bush Cordia ..."

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