Definition of Tolu tree

1. Noun. Medium-sized tropical American tree yielding tolu balsam and a fragrant hard wood used for high-grade furniture and cabinetwork.

Exact synonyms: Myroxylon Balsamum, Myroxylon Toluiferum, Tolu Balsam Tree
Group relationships: Genus Myroxylon, Myroxylon
Terms within: Balsam Of Tolu, Tolu, Tolu Balsam
Generic synonyms: Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tolu Tree

tolsel
tolsels
tolsey
tolseys
tolt
toltec
tolter
toltered
toltering
tolterodine
tolters
tolts
tolu
tolu balsam tree
tolu tree (current term)
toluamide
toluamides
toluate
toluates
toluene
toluene-3-monooxygenase
toluene-4-monooxygenase
toluene dioxygenase
toluene ortho-monooxygenase
toluenes
toluenesulfonate
toluenesulfonic acid
toluenesulfonyl
toluenyl

Literary usage of Tolu tree

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

1. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1821)
"... in botany, balsam of tolu tree, a genus of the ... T. balsamum, balsam of tolu tree. It is a native of Spanish America, in the province of Tolu, ..."

2. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanburgy (1879)
"... collect birds and insects, made it a special object, at the urgent request of one of us (H.), to procure complete specimens of the Balsam of tolu tree. ..."

3. Note-book of Materia Medica, Pharmacology, and Therapeutics by Robert Edmund Scoresby-Jackson (1867)
"... Balsam of tolu tree. Officinal part : A balsam obtained from the stem by incision ; from the mountains of Tolu, in New Grenada. ..."

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