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fever trees

fever trees is the plural of fever tree.

Meaning of fever tree

Noun

fever tree (plural fever trees)

  1. An acacia tree of species Vachellia xanthophloea, native to eastern and southern Africa, with fragrant yellow flowers.
    • To write of fever in the home of the far-famed “fever tree,” without adding a word upon its merits, would look like denying it honour in its own country; and to avoid that appearance of ingratitude, a leaf will now be gleaned from indigenous blue-gum literature.1874, William Thomson, On Typhoid Fever, page 195
  2. Georgia bark; any member of the species Pinckneya bracteata (syn. P. pubens), principally of Georgia and northern Florida in the US.

Questions about fever trees

What is fever trees the plural of?
Fever trees is the plural of fever tree.

Words near fever trees in the dictionary

  1. fever swamps
  2. fever tea
  3. fever trap
  4. fever traps
  5. fever tree
  6. fever trees
  7. fever-dreamlike
  8. fever-pitched
  9. fever-ridden
  10. fever-swamp
  11. fever-swamps

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