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bow wood
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Noun1.bow wood - small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and an inedible fruit that resembles an orangebow wood - small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and an inedible fruit that resembles an orange; its hard orange-colored wood used for bows by Native Americans; frequently planted as boundary hedge
Maclura pomifera, osage orange, mock orange
angiospermous yellowwood - any of various angiospermous trees having yellow wood
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In Margo Dawley's "Remarkable Trees of Virginia," the Osage in Osage-orange should be capitalized because it is a Native American nation.
Complex issues, small fixes by Sternberg, Guy / American Forests
Dan Urbach Alaska Howard Burnett responds: The osage-orange (Maclura pomifera) is originally native to the mid-South but has been planted throughout the eastern United States.
Osage-orange in Alaska? by American Forests
Editor: The jury is still out on the age of the great osage-orange at the home of Patrick Henry, despite the intriguing article (Summer 2003) by Nancy Ross Hugo and the two increment cores taken by dendrochronologist Carolyn Copenheaver.
The mystery continues by Sternberg, Guy / American Forests
 
 
 
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