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cow tree

noun

  1. a South American moraceous tree, Brosimum galactodendron, producing latex used as a substitute for milk

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The symbolic meaning behind the transformations of the characters — satellite becomes girl, boy becomes cow, tree becomes a talking roll of toilet paper — might go over their heads.

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Higson met with two species of cow tree, which he states to be abundant in the deep and humid woods of the provinces of Choc� and Popay�n.

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This he regards as identical with the cow tree of Caracas, of which Humboldt has given so graphic a description.

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As originally printed: "as identical with the cow tree of Caraccas".

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Cow In Eastern Guatemala, Dr. Samuel J. Record discovered a tree never before known to science, named it the cow tree.

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