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Significados de bow wood em inglês

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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 "osage orange"
        Examples for "osage orange"
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        Other fairly hardy and drought-resistant trees are osage orange and Russian mulberry.
        Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest / Protecting Existin...
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        It also occasionally attacks black walnut, butternut, mulberry and osage orange.
        Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at t...
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        Can the Navel orange be grafted on the osage orange?
        One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
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        The osage orange is not an orange at all.
        One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
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        We had to pass through an osage orange hedge that was worse than the enemy's fire.
        "Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment / Or, A Side ...
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        There were fig-trees, persimmons, mock orange, and shrubs ablaze with blossoms.
        Ten American Girls from History
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        This is true of grapes, quince, hybrid perpetual roses, shrubby hibiscus, crape myrtle, mock orange, hydrangea (paniculata), and others.
        Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) / A Practical Guide to the ...
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        The sweet smell of mallow and mock orange flowers wafted through the byways, perfuming the cobblestone lanes sweeter than a baby's breath.
        Worldwinder
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        In the foyer and dining room and kitchen, the air swims with the scent of phantom flowers, shimmering with sweet, heavy mock orange.
        Tell-all
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        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.
        The Guardian
        Uso de bow wood em inglês
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        His favourite bow wood is osage orange, a tree brought to New Zealand by Amercian gold prospectors.
        Radio NZ
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        They had abundance of ash and yew and these remained the good bow wood of all the time of archery.
        The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man
        Translations for bow wood