bully tree

bully tree

noun
any of various tropical American trees, as Manilkara bidentata, of the sapodilla family, that yield the gum balata.
Also called bullet tree.


Origin:
1650–60; bully, alteration of balata
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Bully tree is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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bully tree

noun
a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber [syn: balata
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