IVORY TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ivory tree mean? 

• IVORY TREE (noun)
  The noun IVORY TREE has 1 sense:

1. tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea

  Familiarity information: IVORY TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IVORY TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

conessi; Holarrhena antidysenterica; Holarrhena pubescens; ivory tree; kurchee; kurchi

Hypernyms ("ivory tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("ivory tree" is a member of...):

genus Holarrhena; Holarrhena (genus of deciduous trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia)

 Context examples 

The vegetation had again changed, and only the vegetable ivory tree remained, with a great profusion of wonderful orchids, among which I learned to recognize the rare Nuttonia Vexillaria and the glorious pink and scarlet blossoms of Cattleya and odontoglossum.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)