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osage-orange

osage-orange is the alternative form of Osage orange.

Meaning of Osage orange

Noun

Osage orange (plural Osage oranges)

  1. The tree Maclura pomifera, noted for its large, dense, wrinkly, bright green and unpalatable fruit, once a popular hedge tree in the United States.
  2. The fruit of this tree.

Forms of osage-orange

pluralosage-oranges

Questions about osage-orange

What is osage-orange the alternative form of?
Osage-orange is the alternative form of Osage orange.

Words near osage-orange in the dictionary

  1. Osage Nation
  2. osage orange
  3. osage oranges
  4. Osage thorn
  5. Osage thorns
  6. osage-orange
  7. osage-oranges
  8. Osagean
  9. Osages
  10. Osagian
  11. osajaxanthone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: osage-orange (page history and authors); Osage orange (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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