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bottle treenounEither of two Australian trees with swollen bottle-shaped trunks containing water:- The Australian baobab of the Kimberley region (Adansonia gregorii, family Bombacaceae). A relative of the flame tree occurring in Queensland (Brachychiton rupestre, family Sterculiaceae)..
Not wanting to be seen, she ducked behind a bottle tree, peering suspiciously into the car....- 85 years ago, the people of Roma planted a series of bottle trees, each one marking a local soldier who had died during World War One.
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