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sandbox tree

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sandbox tree
n.
A tropical American tree (Hura crepitans) having an irritating milky juice, a spiny trunk, and large woody seed capsules that split explosively when ripe.
[So called because the capsules were formerly used to hold sand for drying ink.]
sandbox tree
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) 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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