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单词 hog gum tree
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hog gum tree
2. More fully hog gum tree. Any of various tropical trees yielding hog gum; esp. (a) either of two trees of the family Clusiaceae, Moronobea coccinea of South America, and Symphonia globulifera of Central and South America and parts of Africa; (b) the poisonwood, Metopium toxiferum (family Anacardiaceae), of Central America and the Caribbean.
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1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 177 The Hog-gum Tree... This tree is..well known for its medicinal gum, to which the very hogs are said to have recourse when wounded in the woods.
1814 J. Lunan Hortus Jamaicensis I. 375 It is called hog gum or hog-doctor tree, because it is asserted that wild hogs rub themselves with the juice when wounded.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Moronobea coccinea, the Hog Gum tree, is a lofty straight-stemmed tree.
1905 C. S. Sargent Man. Trees N. Amer. 604 Metopium Metopium, Small. Poison Wood. Hog Gum. (Rhus Metopium.)
1938 Amer. Midland Naturalist 19 266 The genus [Rhus]..includes plants of greatest diversity, among which are..the smoke-tree, the hog-gum and the American pitacia.
1953 Ecol. Monogr. 23 393/1 The dominant tree is hog gum (Symphonia globulifera), with aerial roots and an exudate of yellow gum when cut.
1985 Econ. Bot. 39 350 (table) Boar Gum..Symphonia globulifera... Boar tree, boar wood, hog gum tree, hog doctor.
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