Search Result for "osage_orange":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. 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;
[syn: osage orange, bow wood, mock orange, Maclura pomifera]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Osage orange \O"sage or"ange\ (Bot.) An ornamental tree of the genus Maclura (Maclura aurantiaca), closely allied to the mulberry (Morus); also, its fruit. The tree was first found in the country of the Osage Indians, and bears a hard and inedible fruit of an orangelike appearance. See Bois d'arc. [1913 Webster]
