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vegetable ivory trees

vegetable ivory trees is the plural of vegetable ivory tree.

Meaning of vegetable ivory tree

Noun

vegetable ivory tree (plural vegetable ivory trees)

  1. A tropical South American palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, whose seed is used as a substitute for ivory; the tagua palm.
    • The vegetation had again changed, and only the vegetable ivory tree remained, with a great profusion of wonderful orchids, among which I learned to recognize the rare Nuttonia Vexillaria and the glorious pink and scarlet blossoms of Cattleya and odontoglossum.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Questions about vegetable ivory trees

What is vegetable ivory trees the plural of?
Vegetable ivory trees is the plural of vegetable ivory tree.

Words near vegetable ivory trees in the dictionary

  1. vegetable gardens
  2. vegetable hummingbird
  3. vegetable hummingbirds
  4. vegetable ivory
  5. vegetable ivory tree
  6. vegetable ivory trees
  7. vegetable jelly
  8. vegetable juice
  9. vegetable juices
  10. vegetable kingdom
  11. vegetable lamb

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