cow tree

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2018

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Bredemeyer saw, like us, the fruit, and not the flower of the cow tree.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von

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

From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various

And now," said Miss Harson, "the last of these useful trees--the cow tree, or milk tree--is the most curious one of all.

From Among the Trees at Elmridge by Church, Ella Rodman