California nutmeg


noun
  1. a tall, pungently aromatic California evergreen tree, Torreya californica, of the yew family, having a fissured, gray-brown bark and small, purple-streaked, green fruit.

Origin of California nutmeg

1
An Americanism dating back to 1905–10

Words Nearby California nutmeg

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