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noun

any of several trees that produce or are believed to produce a febrifuge, as the blue gum, which is believed to prevent malaria.

a small tree, Pinckneya pubens, of the madder family, native to the southeastern U.S., having a bark used as a tonic and febrifuge.

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Origin of fever tree

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70

Words nearby fever tree

feverishly, feverous, fever pitch, feverroot, fever therapy, fever tree, fever twig, feverweed, feverwort, few, few and far between

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How to use fever tree in a sentence

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Bohac vowed to that when he came back next year there would be no confusion about any Christmas tree or Santa aprons.
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If you Google “Muslim Christmas tree star” you will see a list of right-wing websites wetting their pants over this.
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Civilians left flowers as well as a tiny frosted Christmas tree that had two red ornaments.
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This tiny person spent little or none of his time in the tree-tops, but chose to stay near the ground.
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Day by day these fretting anxieties and perplexities wasted her strength, and her fever grew higher and higher.
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Each tiny tree was a plume of leaves; the rows stretched out to the hilltop, and over.
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Wide and straight, well made and tree-lined throughout, it supplied the two great arteries of Indian life.
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I saw every crook in the fence, every rut in the road, every bush and tree long before we came to it.
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British Dictionary definitions for fever tree

fever tree

noun US

any of several trees that produce a febrifuge or tonic, esp Pinckneya pubens, a rubiaceous tree of SE North America

a tall leguminous swamp tree, Acacia xanthophloea, of southern Africa, with fragrant yellow flowers

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