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Aleurites

noun
1.
Candlenut.  Synonym: genus Aleurites.



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"Aleurites" Quotes from Famous Books



... 18. ALEURITES TRILOBA.—The candleberry tree, much cultivated in tropical countries for the sake of its nuts. The nuts or kernels, when dried and stuck on a reed, are used by the Polynesians as a substitute for candles and as an article of food; they are ...
— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders



Words linked to "Aleurites" :   Aleurites moluccana, Aleurites fordii, genus Aleurites, tung tree, candlenut, Euphorbiaceae, spurge family, family Euphorbiaceae, varnish tree, tung, rosid dicot genus, tung-oil tree



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