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sandbox tree

noun

  1. a tropical American tree, Hura crepitans, of the spurge family, bearing a furrowed, roundish fruit about the size of an orange that when ripe and dry bursts with a sharp report and scatters the seeds.

sandbox tree

noun

  1. a tropical American euphorbiaceous tree, Hura crepitans, having small woody seed capsules, which explode when ripe to scatter the seeds: formerly used to hold sand for blotting ink

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sandbox tree1

First recorded in 1740–50

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Example Sentences

In Jamaica they call it the sandbox-tree, because they get the pretty, fluted seed cases, and make sand-boxes of them.

The sandbox-tree is one of the most beautiful growths of West Indian forests.

Sandbox-Tree, hura crepitans, rises to the height of from twenty to thirty feet.

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