varnish tree
IPA: vˈɑrnɪʃtrˈi
noun
- Any of several species of trees that exude a resinous juice used in varnishing or lacquering.
- Aleurites moluccanus (candlenut, kukui)
- Koelreuteria paniculata (goldenrain tree)
- Semecarpus anacardium (marking nut tree)
- Toxicodendron vernicifluum (Chinese lacquer tree)
varnish-tree
IPA: vˈɑrnɪʃtri
noun
- Alternative form of varnish tree [Any of several species of trees that exude a resinous juice used in varnishing or lacquering.]
Examples of "varnish-tree" in Sentences
- Ulmaria Filipendula ulmus species umbrella plant umbrella tree varnish-tree vegetables, culture of vegetable oyster viburnum species vigna vinca major
- The tree best suited to this locality, and, as there is good reason to suppose, to sand plains in general, is the Ailanthus glandulosa, or Japan varnish-tree.
- The remarkable success which has crowned the experiments with the ailanthus at Odessa, will, no doubt, stimulate to similar trials elsewhere, and it seems not improbable that the arundo and the maritime pine, which have fixed so many thousand acres of drifting sands in Western Europe, will be, partially at leaat, superseded by the tamarisk and the varnish-tree.