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cir⋅i⋅o

  [sir-ee-oh]
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–noun, plural cir⋅i⋅os.
boojum tree.
Origin:
< MexSp; Sp: wax candle < L cēreus, n. use of cēreus made of wax, equiv. to cēr(a) wax + -eus -eous
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boojum tree

  [boo-juhm]
–noun
a tree, Idria columnaris, native to Baja California, having spreading spiny branches, deciduous leaves, and yellow flowers.
Also called cirio.

Origin:
1960–65; after the boojum, an imaginary creature invented by Lewis Carroll in the poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876)
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