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Meanings of osage orange in inglés
portugués
laranja-de-osage Small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and an inedible fruit that resembles an orange; its hard orange-colored wood used for bows by Native Americans; frequently planted as boundary hedge.
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Examples for "bow wood"
Examples for "bow wood"
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His favourite bow wood is osage orange, a tree brought to New Zealand by Amercian gold prospectors.
2
They had abundance of ash and yew and these remained the good bow wood of all the time of archery.
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There were fig-trees, persimmons, mock orange, and shrubs ablaze with blossoms.
2
This is true of grapes, quince, hybrid perpetual roses, shrubby hibiscus, crape myrtle, mock orange, hydrangea (paniculata), and others.
3
The sweet smell of mallow and mock orange flowers wafted through the byways, perfuming the cobblestone lanes sweeter than a baby's breath.
4
In the foyer and dining room and kitchen, the air swims with the scent of phantom flowers, shimmering with sweet, heavy mock orange.
5
The sense of peace the poet feels in her garden with its mock orange and sky-blue delphiniums is warming, but her fire has gone.
Usage of osage orange in inglés
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Other fairly hardy and drought-resistant trees are osage orange and Russian mulberry.
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It also occasionally attacks black walnut, butternut, mulberry and osage orange.
3
Can the Navel orange be grafted on the osage orange?
4
The osage orange is not an orange at all.
5
We had to pass through an osage orange hedge that was worse than the enemy's fire.
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His favourite bow wood is osage orange, a tree brought to New Zealand by Amercian gold prospectors.
7
The leaves are, very broad, and the fruit looks something like an ovoid osage orange as large as one's head.
8
I'd like to have a wide strip across the back of the whole place, right in front of the osage orange hedge.
9
This oasis was enclosed by a high fence on the inside of which ran a hedge of lilacs, privet, and osage orange.
10
The farmers took time then to plant fine cottonwood groves on their places, and to set osage orange hedges along the borders of their fields.
11
Grandpappy is grubbing and piling deadened thorn trees, piling brush, logs and dead limbs, spading-up locust, thorn, elm, osage orange and wild crabapple sprouts .
12
The milky juice of the Osage orange is used as a wart-cure.
13
The deciduous plants tried were the buckthorn, Osage orange, honey-locust, privet and barberry.
14
For low breaks of this character the Russian mulberry and Osage orange are excellent.
15
No hedge is more commonly mismanaged than the Osage orange.
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The care in planting and rearing is similar to that required by the Osage orange.