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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tree, Jacquinia armillaris, found in the West Indies, Florida, and elsewhere. Its leaves are saponaceous. See Jacquinia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A West Indian shrub or small tree (Jacquinia keyensis) having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Jacquinia keyensis, a perennial North American tree.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun West Indian shrub or small tree having leathery saponaceous leaves and extremely hard wood

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  • Actually, joewoodn't.

    April 2, 2009