tung tree

n. Any of several widely cultivated eastern Asian trees of the genus Vernicia (syn. Aleurites), especially V. fordii and V. montana, whose seeds yield a commercially valuable drying oil.

[Mandarin tóng, from Middle Chinese tɦəŋ.]

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n. any of several trees belonging to the genus Aleurites, of the spurge family, esp. A. fordii, of China, bearing seeds that yield tung oil. [1890–95; see tung oil]

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tung tree - Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oilAleurites fordii, tung, tung-oil treeAleurites, genus Aleurites - candlenutangiospermous tree, flowering tree - any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary

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, common name for members of the Euphorbiaceae, a family of herbs, shrubs, and trees of greatly varied structure and almost cosmopolitan distribution, although most species are tropical. In the United States the family is most common in the Southeast.
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oil obtained from the seeds of a tropical tree, the tung tree (Aleurites fordii) of the spurge family, and from seeds of some related species, all from Indomalesia or W Pacifica. It is known also as China wood oil and nut oil.
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tung tree

[′təŋ ‚trē] (botany) Aleurites fordii. A plant of the spurge family in the order Euphorbiales, native to central and western China and grown in the southern United States.

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noun Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil

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