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See also:HONEY See also:LOCUST , the popular name of a See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree, Gleditsia triacanthos, a member of the natural See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order See also:Leguminosae, and a native of the more eastern See also:United States of See also:North See also:America. It reaches from 75 to 140 ft. in height with a See also:trunk 2 or 3, or sometimes 5 or 6 ft. in See also:diameter, and slender spreading branches which See also:form a broad, flattish See also:crown. The branchlets See also:bear numerous See also:simple or three-forked (whence the See also:species-name triacanthos) See also:sharp stiff spines, 3 to 4 in. See also:long, at first red in See also:colour, then See also:chestnut See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown; they are See also:borne above the See also:leaf-axils and represent undeveloped branchlets; sometimes they are borne also on the trunk and See also:main branches. The long-stalked leaves are 7 to 8 in. long with eight to fourteen pairs of narrowly oblong leaflets. The See also:flowers, which are of two kinds, are borne in racemes in the leaf-axils; the staminate flowers in larger See also:numbers. The brown pods are often 12 to 18 in. long, have thin, tough walls, and contain a quantity of pulp between the seeds; they See also:contract spirally when drying. The tree was first cultivated in See also:Europe towards the end of the 17th See also:century by See also:Bishop See also:Compton in his See also:garden at See also:Fulham, near See also:London, and is now extensively planted as an ornamental tree. The name of the genus commemorates Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch (1714-1786), a friend of See also:Linnaeus, and the author of one of the earliest See also:works on scientific forestry.
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