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Definition of "oil-tree" [oil-tree]

  • The castor-oil plant. See cut under castor-oil. (noun)
  • Same as illupi. (noun)
  • Same as oil-palm. (noun)
  • The Chinese varnish-tree, whose wood yields an important oil. See Aleurites and tung-oil. (noun)
  • Probably the stone-pine, Pinus Pinea (Isa. xli. 19). (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "oil-tree" in a sentence
  • "African oil-tree rose above the mass, with leaves fifteen feet in length upon its stalk, the latter studded with sharp thorns; the bombax, or silk-cotton-tree, filled the wind, as it swept by, with the fine down of its seeds; the pungent odors of the pendanus, the"
  • "The Poonga oil-tree, the new and old leaves the colour of new copper, and the mature the darkest of green, bears spikes of pale lavender flowers, and makes a decided blotch among the light green succulent leaves of the native cabbage (SCAEVOLA KOENIGII), with its strange white flowers and milk-white fruit."
  • "'I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah-tree, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, and the pine, and the box-tree together' (Isa 41: 19)."