bumelia

bu·mel·ia  (by-ml-)

n.

Any of various often thorny North American trees or shrubs of the genus Bumelia, especially B. lanuginosa or B. lycioides of the southern United States, having very hard wood and black fleshy fruit. Also called buckthorn, shittimwood.

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[New Latin Bmelia, genus name, from Latin bmelia, ash tree, from Greek boumeli : bous, cow; see g^wou- in Indo-European roots + meli, ash.]

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Noun

1.

Bumelia - deciduous or evergreen American shrubs small trees having very hard wood and milky latex genus Bumelia dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination family Sapotaceae, sapodilla family, Sapotaceae - tropical trees or shrubs with milky juice and often edible fleshy fruit buckthorn - any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia