Crossword-Solution: BONDUC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bonduc | n. | See Nicker tree. |
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| type of North American tree | 1 answer |
| KENTUCKY coffee tree | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
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greedy person
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Sentences with BONDUC (5)
Gigantic vegetables of the most different families intermix their branches; five-leaved bignonias grow by the side of bonduc-trees; cassias shed their yellow blossoms upon the rich fronds of arborescent ferns; myrtles and eugenias, with their thousand arms, contrast with the elegant simplicity of palms; and among the airy foliage of the mimosa the ceropia elevates its giant leaves and heavy candelabra-shaped branches.
Vulg.--_Bayag-Kambing_, _Kalambibit_, Tag.; _Dalugdug_, Vis.; _Fever Nut_, _Physic Nut_, _Bonduc Seeds_, Indo-Eng.
Among these the _Guilandina Bonduc_, a leguminous plant, is particularly mentioned, as having been raised from a seed found on the west coast of Ireland.[856] Sir Hans Sloane states, that several kinds of beans cast ashore on the Orkney Isles, and Ireland, but none of which appear to have naturalized themselves, are derived from trees which grow in the West Indies, and many of them in Jamaica.
The germen becomes an oblong pod, thickly covered with slender spines, two-valved, and containing two hard seeds of the size and shape of a marble; those of the bonduc are yellow; the bonducella, of a beautiful grey colour, from whence their respective names.
The bark of the root of the Bonduc shrub in 10 grain doses is reported to be even more effectual in the above cases than the seeds themselves.