boo·jum tree (b  j m)n. A deciduous tree (Idria columnaris) native to Baja California and having a thick tapering columnar trunk, slender spiny branches, and yellow flowers. [After the boojum, an imaginary character in the poem The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll.] |
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| Noun | 1. |  boojum tree - candlewood of Mexico and southwestern California having tall columnar stems and bearing honey-scented creamy yellow flowerscandlewood - any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light Fouquieria, genus Fouquieria - resinous succulent trees or shrubs of desert and semidesert regions of southwestern United States that are leafless most of the year |
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