Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The hop-tree, Ptelea trifoliata.
- noun In Australia: the horseradish-tree, Gyrostemon cotinifolius;
- noun Petalostigma quadrilocularc. See
bitter-bark , 1.
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Examples
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One hot April morning a carabao (water-buffalo) was resting under the shade of a quinine-tree which grew near the mouth of a large river, when a humming-bird alighted on one of the small branches above him.
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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A useful up-to-date guide to botanical names is Jean Galbraith's Collins Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of South-East Australia, so we try that for quinine-tree.
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Webster's Third New International Dictionary gives quinine-tree as an alternative name for three separate trees.
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The Australian Encyclopaedia (the older and fuller 1956 edition) is probably the source of the entry for quinine-tree in the first edition of my dictionary; it also identifies Petalostigma quadriloculare as quinine-tree but adds the names crab-tree, native quince, and emu-apple, mentioning that all these names are shared by other plants.
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The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary, which I am currently revising, has as a definition of quinine-tree ` horse-radish tree (Petalostigma quadriloculare) or native quince, with bitter bark. '
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First we put to one side, as a separate problem, the quinine bush (Alstonia constricta) and concentrate on the quinine-tree.
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