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boojum tree

[ boo-juhm ]

noun

  1. a tree, Idria columnaris, native to Baja California, having spreading spiny branches, deciduous leaves, and yellow flowers.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of boojum tree1

1960–65; after the boojum, an imaginary creature invented by Lewis Carroll in the poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876)

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