osage orange

Definition of Osage Orange in English :

Noun

1. bow wood, maclura pomifera, mock orange, osage orange

small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and an inedible fruit that resembles an orange; its hard orange-colored wood used for bows by Native Americans; frequently planted as boundary hedge

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Osage Orange

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noun

1.

a North American moraceous tree, Maclura pomifera, grown for hedges and ornament

2.

the warty orange-like fruit of this plant

Osage Orange

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1.

a small thorny tree (Maclura pomifera) of the mulberry family, with hard, yellow wood, native to the central U.S. and often used for hedges

2.

its greenish-yellow, orange-shaped, inedible fruit

Osage Orange

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n.

A dioecious spiny tree (Maclura pomifera) native to the south-central United States, having round greenish inedible fruit and formerly used in hedgerows.

Osage Orange

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