winter savory

winter savory (usually uncountable, plural winter savories)

A perennial herb, Satureja montana, used in cooking as a substitute for the annual summer savory.


Savoy medlar

Amelanchier ovalis, a serviceberry shrub with edible fruit.


balm of Gilead

A rare perfume produced in Gilead and used medicinally, mentioned in the Bible. It is sometimes thought to have come from the plant Commiphora gileadensis, and sometimes from a terebinth tree in the genus Pistacia.


devil's bit

blazing star (Chamaelirium luteum), native to North America.


sweet horsemint

(US) The common dittany, Cunila origanoides.


coral plant

Russelia equisetiformis in the plantain family, Plantaginaceae


conipherophytan

Any conifer of the former division Coniferophyta (now Pinophyta)


ewedu

Corchorus olitorius
Corchorus olitorius#Translingual

(Nigeria) The jute mallow, Corchorus olitorius.


rattlesnake root

en-noun

rattlesnake root (countable and uncountable, plural rattlesnake roots)

(botany) A plant of the genus Prenanthes.


English holly

Ilex aquifolium
Ilex aquifolium#Translingual

European holly, common holly (Ilex aquifolium), a tree or shrub of western Europe and suitable environments in areas surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.


synaphea

From translingual Synaphea (“genus name”).

Any plant of the genus Synaphea, especially one of the type species Synaphea petiolaris.


urad dal

From Hindi उड़द दाल (uṛad dāl); see urad + dal.

(India, cooking) A bean (Vigna mungo) or a dish made from it.


sea pea

In a time of great scarcity, the people about our coast found the sea pea in great plenty, and fed upon it.

1758, Thomas Hale, A Compleat Body of Husbandry, page 389:

Growing between sea and land, so that it might almost be doubted in which element it is denizen, the Sea Pea, Lathyrus maritimus, turns up, very local, at various places on our southern and eastern coasts, and is known elsewhere throughout the British Isles only from a few stations in Wales and Ireland.

1963, Anthony Gishford, Tribute to Benjamin Britten on His Fiftieth Birthday, page 145:

The shingle itself – so much of it, so clean and smooth – the flatness, throwing the immense blue dome of the sky into even greater relief, the symmetrical mounds of blue-green sea kale, the creeping skeins of sea pea with its bright-purple flowers, the air, the space, the wind, it was all exhilerating...

2011, Joanna Trollope, Daughters-in-Law, →ISBN:

Mines had been placed along our beaches to proetect the country from invasion, and this resulted in an abundance of rough green carpets of sea peas with fat sturdy leaves, thanks to the lack of human traffic.

2018, Michael Ondaatje, Warlight, →ISBN, pages 284–285:

A variety of pea ( Lathyrus japonicus) found on beaches.


candlebark

In the Nariel Valley there are immense and lovely candlebarks rising singly from the rich paddocks where the dairy cattle graze.

1950, Elyne Mitchell, Australian Treescapes: A Photographic Study:

Candlebark is best seen just south of the end of Jerrabomberra Avenue on its western side.

1968, Lindsay Dixon Pryor, Trees in Canberra, Incorporating a New Section on Woody Shrubs:

Shafts of sunlight poured through the tall ferns and candlebark trees that lined King Parrot Creek, along which they drove until the road opened into a beautiful green valley at Flowerdale.

2006, Alan Pilkington, Four of Diamonds: An Australian's Journey, page 195:


Mexican bush sage

Mexican bush sage (usually uncountable, plural Mexican bush sages)

A shrubby sage native to central and eastern Mexico, Salvia leucantha, grown in subtropical, dry climates for its ornamental flower stems covered in bright blue or purple velvety hairs, and for its relative drought tolerance.


white sage

white sage (usually uncountable, plural white sages)

Salvia apiana, a sage native to southern California and neighboring Baja California west of the desert, an important nectar source for sage honey.


pacara

... mantling the slopes are other still denser forests, where the Pacara (Enterolobium timbavica), Lapacho (Tecoma stans), Quina-Quina (Myroxilon peruanum), Urunday (allied to the Lapacho) Quefioa (Rosacea Polylepis racemosa), Cascaron ...

1881, Ernest William White, Cameos from the Silver-land: Or, The Experiences of a Young Naturalist in the Argentine Republic, London: J. Van Voorst, page 44:

Of the same family is the pacara, equally rapid in growth ; both produce a fruit which serves for making soap. The tatane, or palo amarillo, is a large mimosa, well suited for making furniture. Cedars, red as well as white, flourish in the warmer ...

1885, Michael George Mulhall, Edward T. Mulhall, Handbook of the River Plate, Comprising the Argentine Republic, Uruguay and Paraguay: With Railway Map, page 8:

Growing with or near the sebil, we find the two cedars, the white and the pink; the lapaccio, that we have remarked likewise in the sub-zone of the urunday, the walnut, the laurel, the tatane, the pacara, the mulberry, the tipa, the male oak,...

1886, Juan Pelleschi, Eight Months on the Gran Chaco of the Argentine Republic, London: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, page 247:

This region of the forest contains many magnificent trees and shrubs: the wild pepper, the nogal or walnut, the Algaroba, and the pacara. The shrubs all have either bipinnate or tripinnate leaves. One shrub has far more flowers upon it than ...

1889, Leicester Literary, Philosophical Society, Transactions, page 171:

... the tatane is golden yellow; the pacara is dark red; the molle is black-brown; the lapacho is green, gray and black; the guayabo is deep red, veined with black and yellow; the palo ribera is dark cinnamon with red veins; the guayacan is black ...

1896, Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics, page 317:

The Wax Palm, Copemica cert/era, is wide-spread, and the Pacara, a huge Mimosa, is described as a tree of great size and beauty, yielding a fruit containing a large percentage of Saponine. Other useful trees in the Gran Chaco are Urunday, ...

1904, Journal of the African Society, page 419:

... Originally described from roots of the pacara earpod tree (Enterolobium contortisiliquum) in China. Meloidogyne enterolobii was previously reported in SA as Meloidogyne mayaguensis Rammah and Hirschmann, 1988, and recorded from ...

2017, Hendrika Fourie, Vaughan W. Spaull, Robin K. Jones, Mieke S. Daneel, Dirk De Waele, Nematology in South Africa: A View from the 21st Century, Springer, →ISBN, page 61:

A large tree of the mimosa family, Enterolobium contortisiliquum, which yields wood good for carpentry.


araca-boi

/əˌɹɑsə ˈboɪ/

A few examples of this constantly growing group are araca-boi, acerola, soursop, babaco, and naranjilla among others described in Table 6.1.
Araca-boi
Araca-boi (Eugenia stipitata) is a yellow skin round fruit with a creamy white pulp.

2016, Ray Marsili, Flavor, Fragrance, and Odor Analysis, Second Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 129:

17.2.13 Araca-Boi Fruit [Eugenia stipitata]
Araca-boi is a yellow round fruit, about 12 cm in diameter (Franco and Shibamoto, 2000). The fruit has a distinctive acidic flavor.

2016, Sunil Pareek, Postharvest Ripening Physiology of Crops, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 567:

The Brazilian guava tree Eugenia stipitata or its fruit. (Compare araca.)


barbatimao

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese barbatimão.

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One of the trees that are coming into notice is the barbatimao. The union's attention was directed toward it through a German tanner who had gone to Brazil, and the union has experimented with barbatimao bark at various tanneries, as well as ...

1908, “Tanning Properties of Barbatimao Bark”, in Harness, page 4:

These referred largely to the bark of the barbatimao. The most abundant source of tannin in the country is the mangrove. … Next in importance come angico, … and the barbatimao tree.

1916, Consul General Alfred L. Moreau Gottschalk, Brazilian Tanning and Dyeing Materials, in The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association, page 315

… additional samples of the "Barbatimao" bark (Stryphnodendron Barbatimao, Mart.) have been received from an American consular officer in Brazil, and may be examined at the Bureau or its district offices. (Refer to file No. 74607.)

1916, 1916 April 18, [US Department of] Commerce Reports, number 91, page 240

BARBATIMAO BARK. An article in La Bourse aux Cuirs de Bruxelles mentions the use of barbatimao bark in Brazil. Barbatimao bark is obtained from the tree Stryphnodcndron Barbatimao, and constitutes one of the richest tanning materials ...

A considerable number of wild plants rich in tannin grow in various regions of Brazil. They fall into three main botanical groups: the barbatimao trees, with a tannin ...

1976, Brazil: Resources and Possibilities:

Evaluation of mutagenic and/or recombinogenic activity of extracts of barbatimao (Stryphnodendron adstringens, Mart.) in germ and somatic cells of Drosophila melanogaster [...]

A South American mimosa tree, Stryphnodendron adstringens (formerly Stryphnodendron barbatimao), which has an astringent, tannin-rich bark.


guaxima

Said by Century to be from a Tupian word guazima, guajima. (Compare guanxuma, guanxima, sometimes encountered as names of a malva.)

From the liber^([sic]) of the guaxima (Urena lobata) are made excellent paper and the cordage and the vegetable wool, mentioned in another place, which did not pass unobserved at the exhibition of Vienna.

1876, The Empire of Brazil at the Universal Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia, page 49:

… the possible development of the scheme to manufacture coffee bags from guaxima, botanical name Urena lobata. The attempt here has been to manufacture the bags from what is known as aranina, an upcountry species of the guaxima.

1907 July-September, George E. Anderson, Brazilian fibers, in Monthly Consular and Trade Reports, numbers 322-324, page 114

A large number of fibers, both wild and cultivated, are produced in Brazil. They include caroa, sisal, phormium, jute, ramie, flax, guaxima and many others. Jute is of special interest [...]

1947, Britain Bragunier Robinson, Tallmadge Bergen, Statuts of the Fiber Plant Industry in Latin America, page 25:

Production of kenaf in Thailand and India, and guaxima fiber in Brazil totaled 1.3 billion pounds in 1965, 9 percent more than in …

1966, Department of Agriculture - appropriations for 1967 - Hearings before the US House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on the Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies

Urena lobata, a Brazilian plant, or the useful fiber it yields.


jackalberry

From jackal + berry, since jackals like to eat the fruit.

Diospyros mespiliformis, a large dioecious evergreen tree found mostly in the savannas of Africa.


knobthorn

Senegalia nigrescens, a deciduous African tree found in savanna regions.


perovskia

(botany) Any of the genus Perovskia of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae.


leather-coat

An apple with a rough rind, the Golden Russet.


episcia

(botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Episcia; a flame violet.


flame violet

Any of genus Episcia of flowering plants.


plakkie

(South Africa) Kalanchoe thyrsiflora, Kalanchoe luciae, and related plants.


buckbush

(Canada, US) Shrubs of Canada and the central US, Symphoricarpos occidentalis(also known as wolfberry and Symphoricarpos orbicularis (coralberry).


calabash tree

Crescentia cujete
Crescentia cujete#Translingual

Any of other species of genus Crescentia.


desert oak

Var. frutescens, Engelmann, is a shrub from three to ten feet high, known in the Sierra Nevadas as Desert Oak.

1884, Andrew Samuel Fuller, Practical Forestry:

We passed through a stand of desert oaks, which are a species of casuarina and look less like an oak than a cactus.

1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 144:

Molly and Gracie spent a lovely weekend with their families digging for kulgu yams and collecting bunches of yellow flowers from the desert oaks, which they brought home to share with those who stayed behind to take care of the old people and the dogs.

1996, Doris Pinkington, Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 169

(Australia) Any of several trees of dry parts of Australia, especially Acacia coriacea, Acacia sericophylla, and Allocasuarina decaisneana.


common madder

Rubia tinctorum
Rubia tinctorum#Translingual


snappy gum

The timber consists of Scribbly gum (known here as Snappy Gum), Mountain Ash, pepperment, interspersed with patches of Bloodwood, Mohogany, Stringy Bark, and Apple and on the sides of the mountain gullies to the south grows sparsely Iron Bark, box (Eupts. quadrangulata) and Water Gum.

1902 July 15, The Australasian Beekeeper, page 9:

The first six children born had sat beside her under the shade of a snappy gum until she erected a more permanent shade with two blankets.

2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 14:

(Australia) Any of various eucalypts having brittle timber, including Eucalyptus brevifolia, Eucalyptus haemastoma and Eucalyptus rossii.


California hazelnut

en-noun

California hazelnut (plural California hazelnuts)

A shrub with edible nuts, Corylus cornuta subsp. californica, native to the western edge of North America.


clockvine

clockvine (usually uncountable, plural clockvines)

Any member of the species of the plants in genus Thunbergia.


Malacca-bean tree

Malacca-bean tree (plural Malacca-bean trees)


stanmarch

From Middle English stanmarche, from Old English stānmerċe, compound of stān (“stone”) + merċe (“smallage”).

The A. S. name [mersc] passed into Old Eng. and survived to Turner’s time ; but now occurs only in Stanmarch, which has been transferred from the Parsley to the allied Alexanders, or Horse-parsley (Smyrnium Olusatrum, L.) a plant formerly much cultivated for salads.

1877 January 11, Thomas Comber, “The etymology of plant names, Part II. Kitchen-vegetables and salad-plants”, in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, page 62:

The herb was also known as Stanmarch. It grows on waste places by rivers near the sea, having been formerly cultivated like celery, which has now supplanted it.

1897, William Thomas Fernie, Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, Lettuce, page 313:

(archaic) Smyrnium olusatrum, alexanders, horse parsley, an herb of the umbellifer family.


maloga bean

[T]he silent melaleuca trees and paperbark woodland, decorated for Christmas with bouquets of red mistletoe flowers and the sleepy olive vines of wild medicine and maloga beans.

2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 294:

(Australia) The pencil yam, Vigna lanceolata.


soap acacia

soap acacia (countable and uncountable, plural soap acacias)

A plant of species Senegalia rugata (syn. Acacia concinna).


rattlesnake weed

Any of several plants used in folk medicine to treat snakebites.


downy birch

A deciduous tree of species Betula pubescens.


sunder tree

Heritiera fomes (syn. H. minor Roxb.); a tree found in high intertidal regions of Bangladesh (especially in Sundarbans), Myanmar, Thailand, etc., with dark durable timber.

looking-glass tree

Heritiera littoralis or Heritiera macrophylla


rose she-oak

Allocasuarina torulosa, an Australian tree which grows in sub-rainforest areas.


Pink Lady

Pink Lady (countable and uncountable, plural Pink Ladies)

(historical, military, uncountable) A denaturant mixture added to discourage World War II-era US Navy submariners from drinking "torpedo juice".


conker tree

/ˈkɒŋkə ˌtɹiː/

(British, informal) The horse chestnut tree, Aesculus.


hawthorn berry

hawthorn berry (plural hawthorn berries)

/ˈhɔːθɔːn ˌbɛɹi/

/ˈhɔθɔɹn ˌbɛɹi/

/ˈhɑθɔɹn ˌbɛɹi/


strawberry begonia

strawberry begonia (plural strawberry begonias)

Saxifraga stolonifera
Saxifraga stolonifera#Translingual

A plant of species Saxifraga stolonifera.


butter fruit

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-butter fruit.wav


satinleaf

Chrysophyllum oliviforme, a medium-sized tree native to Florida, the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and Belize.


cajuput tree

Any of several trees of the genus Melaleuca that have white, spongy bark.


Labrador tea

Labrador tea (countable and uncountable, plural Labrador teas)

Labrador tea
Rhododendron subsect. Ledum

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Any of three Rhododendron species (R. tomentosum, R. groenlandicum, or R. neoglandulosum).

vaivóras (but this also means Empetrum nigrum and Vaccinium uliginosum)

because these plants are unknown that far south


cream of tartar tree

cream of tartar tree (plural cream of tartar trees)

Adansonia digitata
Adansonia digitata#Translingual


rabbiteye

A type of blueberry (Vaccinium virgatum)


thorny broom

thorny broom (countable and uncountable, plural thorny brooms)

A spiny, densely branched shrub of the legume family Calicotome spinosa.


water violet

An aquatic plant, the featherfoil (Hottonia palustris).


double jasmine

Jasminum sambac
Jasminum sambac#Translingual


sowbread

sowbread (countable and uncountable, plural sowbreads)


Bengal gram

A form of chickpea, or the flour made from it


yellow gum

Any of various plants which produce a yellow resin, some of which are used medicinally:

Trees of genus Nyssa, of North America and Asia.


common rue

Ruta graveolens
Ruta graveolens#Translingual


haskap

Borrowed from Ainu ハㇱカプ (haskap, “honeyberry, blue honeysuckle”).

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Lonicera caerulea var. emphyllocalyx, the blue honeysuckle or honeyberry. A deciduous shrub native to East Asia.


common mullein

Verbascum thapsus
Verbascum thapsus#Translingual


sarraceniacean

Any pitcher plant of the family Sarraceniaceae


stonebreak

en-noun

stonebreak (usually uncountable, plural stonebreaks)

From stone + break, a literal translation of the Latin term.


okoume

Borrowed from certain Gabonese Bantu (Cf. Myene okumé, Viya okumé, Tsogo okumé) via French okoumé.

Aucoumea klaineana, an African hardwood.


hedgehog plant

Next time at Kew, look in the rock garden at the hedgehog plant, Erinacea anthyllis, with its mauve flowers.

1993, The Horticulturist, volume 2, page 138:

The spiny evergreen flowering plant Erinacea anthyllis.


honey mesquite

These habitats were most evident on the Iberian Peninsula where, by 15 million years ago, members of the thorn-rose genus (Neurada), esparto grass, honey mesquite and nitre bush (Nitraria) flourished in arid shrublands.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 97:

Prosopis glandulosa, a thorny shrub or tree in the legume family Fabaceae.


snail clover

snail clover (countable and uncountable, plural snail clovers)

Certain species of medick, especially Medicago scutellata.


snail trefoil

snail trefoil (countable and uncountable, plural snail trefoils)

Synonym of snail clover (Medicago scutellata)


deerweed

deerweed (countable and uncountable, plural deerweeds)


pulasan

The fruit of the tropical tree Nephelium ramboutan-ake (syn. N. mutabile)


heart clover

From Middle English hartclaver, herte clovre, heortclæfre, from Old English heortclǣfre, equivalent to heart + clover.

A flowering plant (Medicago arabica) in the pea and bean family Fabaceae native to the Mediterranean basin but now found throughout the world.


shiikuwasha

Citrus reticulata
Citrus reticulata#Translingual

A citrus fruit, native to Taiwan and Okinawa (Citrus reticulata, syn. Citrus depressa)


araguaney

Borrowed from Spanish araguaney, itself borrowed from Kari'na arawone.

Handroanthus chrysanthus
Handroanthus chrysanthus#Translingual


rice bean

Vigna umbellata
Vigna umbellata#Translingual

A bean plant of species Vigna umbellata, a food and fodder crop of Asia.


khella

Visnaga daucoides
Visnaga daucoides#Translingual

The plant Visnaga daucoides (syn. Ammi visnaga).


Montpellier maple

Montpellier maple (plural Montpellier maples)

Acer monspessulanum
Acer monspessulanum#Translingual

A low tree or shrub (Acer monspessulanum) native to France, Spain, and Italy


water cabbage

Samolus valerandi, a species of water pimpernel.


shellflower

A floating aquatic plant, Pistia stratiotes, with green rosettes of leaves and inconspicuous flowers.

A plant in the mint family grown for its distinctive circular green calyxes.


cherry orange

A small orange-like fruit and the plant that produces it.


Stinking Bishop

Stinking Bishop (countable and uncountable, plural Stinking Bishops)

A reference to Frederick (or Percy) Bishop, who owned Moorcroft Farm in the early 1800s and was presumably the cultivar's breeder; he is said to have had an ugly temperament.

Stinking Bishop cheese
Stinking Bishop pear

(countable) A pear of a variety bred near Dymock in Gloucestershire, England, primarily for perry.

(countable, uncountable) A washed-rind cheese made from the milk of Gloucester cattle and immersed in perry made from Stinking Bishop pears.


anjan

anjan (countable and uncountable, plural anjans)

The anjan tree is found in isolated patches in dry areas of the subcontinent and is the source of one of India's most durable timbers.

2000, Subhadra Menon, Pallava Bagla, Aruna Ghose, Trees of India, page 78:

The present paper addresses the non-timber produce of anjan (Hardwickia binata).

2000, A.K. Bisaria, R. Tiwari, “Non Timber Produce of Anjan (Hardwickia binata)”, in Multipurpose Tree Species:

The anjan plantation was intercropped with clusterbean, cowpea, greengram and sesamum during kharif season of each year of study i.e. 2001-02 to 2003-04.

2007, Sunil Puri, Agroforestry: Systems and Practices, page 167:

A hardwood tree (Hardwickia binata) native to dry regions of the Indian subcontinent.


African locust bean

African locust bean (plural African locust beans)

Parkia biglobosa
Parkia biglobosa#Translingual

Any of various species of Parkia, a genus of trees in the legume family Fabaceae, especially Parkia biglobosa.


chittim

chittim (countable and uncountable, plural chittims)

From Hebrew שִׁטִּים, plural of שִׁטָּה, with the spelling change from shittim perhaps chosen to avoid any association with shit.

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Hebrew שִׁטִּים

The knowledge of this fact induced the Deity to command the Israelites to "make no idols nor graven image; neither rear you up a standing image:" but He afterwards made them bring their skill into operation by creating for His worship the ark of the covenant, of chittim wood, and the mercy seat, with cherubims of gold — and appointed to design the work Bezaleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, who was skilled to devise cunning works, to work in gold and in silver, and in brass; and in the cutting of stones to set them; and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.

1835, Robert Folkestone Williams, An historical sketch of the art of sculpture in wood, page 8:

These dowels appear to be of tamarisk, or chittim-wood, of which the ark is said to have been constructed, — a sacred tree in ancient Egypt, and now very rarely found in the valley of the Nile.

1882, Edward Henry Knight, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary:

It has been suggested that it was called "sacred (or holy) bark" because the early missionaries mistook it for "chittim wood" which is mentioned in the bible.

1997, Jennie Wood Sheldon, Sarah A. Laird, Medicinal Plants: Can Utilization and Conservation Coexist?, page 44:

A type of wood mentioned in the Bible, from which the Ark of the Covenant was constructed.

Owing to the low price offered for chittims bark the amount peeled in Oregon and Washington this year is limited.

1907, The Country Gentleman, volume 72, Part 2, page 719:

We peeled "chittim" bark, on and off for at least thee years through the summers of my fourth, fifth, and sixth grades.

2011, Dan Oliver, The Dust of Old Dole Road: From Poverty to Peace, page 134:

A cascara tree, of species Rhamnus purshiana.

The most superficial observer of lumber knows that there is generally a considerable difference between the wood of trees belonging to different species. Sometimes it is quite small, so that lumbermen have no constitutional objection to working off short leaf for long leaf yellow pine, hemlock for white pine, chittim wood, or yellow cottonwood for poplar and red birch for cherry, if it can be done without detection.

1890, The American Monthly Microscopical Journal, volumes 11-12, page 53:

This was the chittim wood, otherwise called yellow wood, a very ornamental tree and one of the prettiest in the forests of the State.

1904, The American Historical Magazine and Tennessee Historical Society Quarterly, volume 9, page 11:

Populus deltoides
Populus deltoides#Translingual

A yellow cottonwood tree, of species Populus deltoides.

This family is represented in our range by only one species. chittim-wood, the woody buckthorn (Bumelia launginosa).

1908, Circular - Oklahoma Geological Survey, numbers 1-8, page 53:

This consisted of a two-room house built of chittim poles, with no floor, a thatched roof of tules, and a windbreak of buffalo and cowhides to the north of it.

1964, John Hendrix, If I Can Do It Horseback: A Cow-Country Sketchbook, page 40:

A false buckthorn tree or shrub, of species Bumelia Lanuginosa.


Bengal almond

Terminalia catappa
Terminalia catappa#Translingual


sea parsnip

An umbelliferous plant of the genus Echinophora.


devil's walking stick

en-noun

devil's walking stick (plural devil's walking sticks)

Aralia spinosa
Aralia spinosa#Translingual

Aralia spinosa, a woody plant native to eastern North America.


aibika

aibika (countable and uncountable, plural aibikas)

From Tok Pisin aibika, from Tolai ibika.

The flowering plant Abelmoschus manihot.


mahleb

From Arabic مَحْلَب (maḥlab, “mahaleb cherry”), from حَلَبَ (ḥalaba, “to milk”).

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What makes them [(kahke)] unique is the fragrant mahleb (also spelled mahlab or mahaleb)—a spice ground from wild cherry kernels, with a flavor reminiscent of fresh cherries—elusive, but fruity and very pleasant.

2010, Richard Sax, Classic Home Desserts: A Treasury of Heirloom and Contemporary Recipes, page 287:

Prunus mahaleb
Prunus mahaleb#Translingual

A Middle Eastern spice derived from the pit of the mahaleb cherry (Prunus mahaleb)


piggyback plant

en-noun

piggyback plant (plural piggyback plants)

A plant native to moist forests near the coast of northwestern North America, Tolmiea menziesii, grown as an ornamental groundcover or container plant for its attractive green foliage with plantlets growing from the bases of the leaves.


lamb's tongue

Plantago lanceolata
Plantago lanceolata#Translingual

The flowering plant Plantago lanceolata.


boab

(Australia) The tree Adansonia gregorii, a baobab species endemic to the Kimberley region and the Northern Territory of Australia.


feltwort

From Old English feltwyrt, equivalent to felt + wort, after its felty, flannellike leaves, therefore it is also called feltpypt in Middle English and in German Wollkraut, and listed English names include flannel leaf, old man's flannel, velvet plant. Hence unrelated to felwort, fieldwort.


Magellan barberry

Magellan barberry (plural Magellan barberries)

The shrub Berberis microphylla and its edible berry, native to southern Chile


orange-ball-tree

A plant of species Buddleja globosa, native to Chile and Argentina.


orange ball buddleja

orange ball buddleja (plural orange ball buddlejas)


Dombey's beech

Dombey's beech (plural Dombey's beeches)

The tree Nothofagus dombeyi native to southern South America


Magellan's beech

Magellan's beech (plural Magellan's beeches)

The tree Nothofagus betuloides native to southern South America


lenga beech

The tree Nothofagus pumilio native to southern South America


holly barberry

holly barberry (plural holly barberries)

A shrub of species Berberis ilicifolia, native to southern South America used in basketweaving by the Yámana people.


holly-leaved barberry

holly-leaved barberry (plural holly-leaved barberries)

holly barberry (Berberis ilicifolia, syn. Mahonia ilicifolia)


Chilean firetree

Chilean firetree (plural Chilean firetrees)

A species of plant, Embothrium coccineum, found in South America.


Chilean firebush

Chilean firebush (plural Chilean firebushes)


harping Johnny

The first word is probably from orpine, another name of this plant. Compare orphan John.

Hylotelephium telephium
Hylotelephium telephium#Translingual

Hylotelephium telephium, a succulent perennial ground cover native to Eurasia.


orphan John

The first word is probably from orpine, another name of this plant. Compare harping Johnny.


witch's moneybags

Hylotelephium telephium (orpine), a succulent perennial ground cover native to Eurasia.


monkey puzzle tree

monkey puzzle tree (plural monkey puzzle trees)


monkey tail tree

monkey tail tree (plural monkey tail trees)

Araucaria araucana
Araucaria araucana#Translingual


Patagonian cypress

Patagonian cypress (plural Patagonia cypresses)

A species of tree, Fitzroya cupressoides, the largest found in South America.


black gram

black gram (usually uncountable, plural black grams)

A bean from the seed of Vigna mungo, native to the Indian subcontinent.


meadow clary

A tall perennial Old World salvia with violet-blue flowers; found in open grasslands, Salvia pratensis.


bells of Ireland

bells of Ireland (plural bells of Ireland)

A plant in the mint family grown for its distinctive green cup-like circular calyxes, Moluccella laevis


desert lavender

desert lavender (plural desert lavenders)

(US) A fragrant shrub with bluish flowers, Hyptis emoryi or Condea emoryi, native to the deserts of southwestern North America.


woolly bluecurls

woolly bluecurls (plural woolly bluecurls)

(US) A fragrant and drought-tolerant shrub in the mint family native to southern California and neighboring Mexico (Trichostema lanatum), which is grown for its striking woolly inflorescences.


wood sage

An herb in the mint family, Teucrium scorodonia.


cat thyme

cat thyme (usually uncountable, plural cat thymes)

A low-growing herb, Teucrium marum, related to germander, which has a pungent scent that causes sneezing, but is attractive to cats.


obedient plant

A flowering plant in the mint family, Physostegia virginiana, native to eastern North America and known for the way that individual flowers stay in the position they're moved to when pushed to one side or the other.


American pennyroyal

American pennyroyal (plural American pennyroyals)

A pennyroyal-scented herb of eastern North America, Hedeoma pulegioides.


Russian sage

A shrub related to sage, Salvia yangii (syn. Perovskia atriplicifolia).


lemonquat

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sunquat

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A citrus tree, a cross between a lemon (probably a Meyer lemon) and a kumquat, Citrus × japonica.


mandarinquat

A citrus tree, a cross between a mandarin and a kumquat, Citrus japonica × Citrus reticulata.


Meyer lemon

Named after American explorer Frank Nicholas Meyer (1875–1918).

named-after

Mr. Farzan’s narrow backyard in Brooklyn’s South Slope neighborhood is a lush, if slightly chaotic, oasis. There are Fuji apples, Meyer lemons, figs, peonies and avocados — although that’s far from a complete census of all that grows there.

2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A citrus tree native to China, a cross between a citron and a mandarin/pomelo hybrid, Citrus × meyeri.


anise hyssop

A North American anise-scented herb in the mint family, Agastache foeniculum, grown for its fragrance, flowers, and for herb tea.


pitcher sage

(California) A sage with large red, pitcher-shaped flowers, Salvia spathacea, native to California and grown there for its fragrance and its tolerance of both drought and shade.

(California) Any plant of the genus Lepechinia in the mint family, several of which are native to southern California and also grown there for fragrance, shade tolerance and drought tolerance


hummingbird sage

en-noun

hummingbird sage (plural hummingbird sages)

(California) The pitcher sage, Salvia spathacea, a fragrant sage native to California, with large red flowers much loved by hummingbirds.


Cleveland sage

Cleveland sage (countable and uncountable, plural Cleveland sages)

(California) A drought-tolerant, sweetly fragrant sage (Salvia clevelandii) native to the Cleveland National Forest in southernmost California and to neighboring Baja California in Mexico.


rose sage

(US) A sage with showy rose-colored bracts and purple flowers native to desert mountains in southern California, Arizona, and Nevada, Salvia pachyphylla.


carpet bugle

Spreading ground covers for shady areas include dead nettles (Lamium) and carpet bugles (Ajuga), with attractively variegated leaves.

2021, Allan Haschick, Gardening in the Shade in South Africa:


foothill pine

A species of pine tree (Pinus sabiniana).


pellamountain

Moreover nature's liberal hand decketh many of the sea cliffs with wild hyssop, sage, pellamountain, marjoram, rosemary, and suchlike well-savouring herbs.

1953, Richard Carew, Frank Ernest Halliday, John Norden, The survey of Cornwall &c, page 101:

Since he had known her, Metty always drank pellamountain tea in the early morning.

Thymus serpyllum
Thymus serpyllum#Translingual


female ginseng

Angelica sinensis
Angelica sinensis#Translingual


Alaskan ginseng

Synonym of devil's club (“the plant Oplopanax horridus”)


bush vetch

bush vetch (usually uncountable, plural bush vetches)

A leguminous climing plant with lilac or blue flowers that grows in hedgerows, grasslands and roadsides; Vicia sepium.


Huang-ch'i

From Mandarin 黃芪 /黄芪 (huángqí), Wade–Giles romanization: Huang²-chʻi².

The Chinese drug Huang-ch’i is in considerable repute all over China.

1906, “Huang-Ch’i”, in Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, number 1, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 382:

Huang-ch'i is one of the famous drug frequently used in the Chinese medicine. In recent years, many substitutes and adulterants for this drug have been found in the market, and the botanic origin of the genuine drug Huang-ch'i still remains unclear both in herbals and in recent literatures.

1964, Shiao Pei-Ken Feng Yu-Shou Cheng Ching-Yung Lou Tze-Ching, “BOTANICAL AND PHARMACOGNOSTICAL STUDIES OF THE CHENESE DRUG HUANG-CH'I——Ⅰ. IDENTIFICATION OF THE BOTANICAL ORIGINS AND REVIEW OF THE ANCIENT HERBALS”, in Acta Pharmaceutica:

Astragalus membranaceus (aka Huang ch'i) has been used widely for thousands of years throughout the Orient to stimulate the immune system.

1997 October, Nancy Spaulding-Albright, “A review of some herbal and related products commonly used in cancer patients”, in Journal of the American Dietetic Association, volume 97, number 10:

He wrote: “From distant Tibet they bring saffron and sal ammoniac; orange peel and litchis from Canton; mushrooms and huang ch'i from Mongolia; rhubarb from Szechuan, etc."

2012, Tao Feiya, “The Evolution of European Missionaries' Views on Chinese Medicine”, in Chinese Studies in History, volume 46, number 2:

A Chinese medicinal herb (Astragalus membranaceus)


bendee

Probably from a Queensland Aboriginal language.

On the flank of the rise the African buffel grass gave way to bare patches of red gravel between thin strands of sandalwood and bendee, spiky tussocks of purple wiregrass and buck spinifex.

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 47:

Acacia catenulata, a species of acacia tree endemic to some arid areas in Queensland and the Northern Territory, Australia.


Bambara nut

Bambara groundnut
Bambara groundnut#English


five finger

five finger (countable and uncountable, plural five fingers)

Pseudopanax arboreus, a New Zealand tree with compound leaves with five to seven 'fingers' and thick, leathery leaves with large teeth. A small, many-branched, round-headed tree with thick, brittle, spreading branches.


indigoberry

Any of the genus Randia of shrubs and small trees.


amacha

A sweet Japanese herbal tea made from the fermented leaves of Hydrangea macrophylla var. thunbergii.


tepozan

A tree of species Buddleja cordata, of Mexico.


water starwort

Any of the small aquatic plants comprising the genus Callitriche.


bundleflower

Any flowering plant of the genus Desmanthus, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas, introduced elsewhere.


monkey pot

Any of numerous tropical trees in the genus Lecythis, mostly with edible nuts.


common barberry

common barberry (plural common barberries)

Berberis vulgaris
Berberis vulgaris#Translingual

Berberis vulgaris, a thorny shrub with tart, bright-red berries, native to Europe, naturalized elsewhere, often used as a hedge.


Japanese medlar

Japanese medlar (plural Japanese medlars)

Eriobotrya japonica
Eriobotrya japonica#Translingual

The loquat. Eriobotrya japonica, which was formerly thought to be closely related to the medlar


cedar of Lebanon

cedar of Lebanon (plural cedars of Lebanon)

A large tree native to the mountains of Lebanon, Cedrus libani subsp. libani, which was known throughout the ancient Middle East for its highly prized wood.


western poison oak

western poison oak (plural western poison oaks)

Toxicodendron diversilobum
Toxicodendron diversilobum#Translingual

A vine or small shrub native to western North America, Toxicodendron diversilobum, which exudes a toxic oil containing urushiol that causes a skin rash.


Chinese quince

Flowering quince
flowering quince#English

Flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa).


common ivy

common ivy (usually uncountable, plural common ivies)

The main European species of ivy, Hedera helix


Swiss stone pine

Swiss stone pine (usually uncountable, plural Swiss stone pines)

A pine tree native to the Alps and other mountains of central and eastern Europe, Pinus cembra


trifoliate orange

trifoliate orange (usually uncountable, plural trifoliate oranges)

A shrub, Citrus trifoliata, mostly grown as a rootstock for other citrus.


wood betony

wood betony (usually uncountable, plural wood betonies)

A North American perennial herb, Pedicularis canadensis, which is a partial root parasite and has been used in traditional medicine.


mahaleb cherry

mahaleb cherry (usually uncountable, plural mahaleb cherries)

A species of cherry, Prunus mahaleb, whose pits are used as a spice called mahleb


great mullein

great mullein (usually uncountable, plural great mulleins)

Verbascum thapsus
Verbascum thapsus#Translingual

A common herb of Europe and neighboring Africa and Asia, but widely naturalized elsewhere, Verbascum thapsus, having a flannel-like texture from course plant hairs and a tall, straight flower stalk.


wild olive

Any of several species resembling a typical olive tree from plant families some of which are only very distantly related.

Several species in the genus Elaeagnus (family Elaeagnaceae), particularly:

Elaeagnus angustifolia (silver berry, oleaster, Persian olive)

Elaeagnus angustifolia
Elaeagnus angustifolia#Translingual


Japanese cherry birch

Japanese cherry birch (usually uncountable, plural Japanese cherry birches)

Betula grossa
Betula grossa#Translingual

A birch native to Japan, Betula grossa, with lenticels on its papery bark like those of cherry trees.


common whitebeam

common whitebeam (usually uncountable, plural common whitebeams)

The most common and widespread species of whitebeam in Europe and western Asia (Aria edulis, syn. Sorbus aria).


common holly

common holly (usually uncountable, plural common hollies)

Ilex aquifolium
Ilex aquifolium#Translingual

English holly, the most common European species of holly (Ilex aquifolium), which is native to western Europe and regions around the Mediterranean.


Christmas holly

Christmas holly (usually uncountable, plural Christmas hollies)


Bosnian pine

Bosnian pine (usually uncountable, plural Bosnian pines)

A pine native to mountains in the Balkans and southern Italy, Pinus heldreichii.


European larch

European larch (usually uncountable, plural European larches)

Larix decidua
Larix decidua#Translingual

A deciduous conifer native to central Europe but also cultivated in England and elsewhere, Larix decidua.


camphor tree

camphor tree (usually uncountable, plural camphor trees)

Dryobalanops aromatica
Dryobalanops aromatica#Translingual


tanner's sumac

tanner's sumac (usually uncountable, plural tanner's sumacs)

Rhus coriaria
Rhus coriaria#Translingual

A large Mediterranean shrub, Rhus coriaria, formerly used for tanning hides due to the tannins in its bark, and with acidic fruits used as a tart seasoning in Middle Eastern food.


Asiatic pennywort

Asiatic pennywort (usually uncountable, plural Asiatic pennyworts)

Centella asiatica
Centella asiatica#Translingual

A low-growing South Asian herb in the celery family, Centella asiatica, eaten as a green for flavor and used in traditional medicine


Mediterranean medlar

Mediterranean medlar (usually uncountable, plural Mediterranean medlars)

Crataegus azarolus
Crataegus azarolus#Translingual

A Mediterranean hawthorn with edible fruit, Crataegus azarolus, azarole.


orange jessamine

orange jessamine (usually uncountable, plural orange jessamines)

Murraya paniculata
Murraya paniculata#Translingual

A south Asian shrub or small tree related to citrus, Murraya paniculata, grown for its evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers.


wild plum

Prunus americana, native to eastern North America.

Amelanchier (serviceberry), a genus in the Rosaceae producing small fruits lacking a pit.


toothpickweed

toothpickweed (countable and uncountable, plural toothpickweeds)

Visnaga daucoides
Visnaga daucoides#Translingual


common dogwood

Cornus sanguinea
Cornus sanguinea#Translingual

A tree of species Cornus sanguinea, native to most of Europe


alubukhara

Ultimately from Persian آلوی بخارا (âlu-ye boxârâ).

A cultivar of plum found in Turkestan, Iran and the South Caucasus, commonly eaten as a prune (dried plum).


moth bean

Etymology tree
Prakrit *𑀫𑁄𑀝𑁆𑀞 (*mŏṭṭha)
Hindi मोठ (moṭh)bor.
English moth bean
Borrowed from Hindi मोठ (moṭh), from Prakrit *𑀫𑁄𑀝𑁆𑀞 (*mŏṭṭha). See there for more.

etymon

Any legume of species Vigna aconitifolia.


bush apple

Breakfast was the white heart of a sand palm – succulent and bitter-sweet – and for ‘jam’ we ate bush apples and red ants with green bottoms that were so full of vitamin C they tasted like stings.

2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, page 51:

(Australia) Any of various trees resembling the apple or bearing similar fruit, especially the black apple (Planchonella australis).


orange tree

Citrus sinensis, a fruit tree that bears oranges. (This entry is a translation hub.)


blue ash

Derived from the black dye extracted from the tree's inner bark through immersion in water.

Any of species Fraxinus quadrangulata of ash trees native primarily to the Midwestern United States, as well as the Bluegrass region of Kentucky and the Nashville Basin region of Tennessee.


strepto

Clipping of streptocarpus. Compare the suffix strepto-.

I also have a WWW page with pictures if interested: […] look under the Convention '95 page, there are several streptos. Also look under "Take a bite of the strang stuff" for a view of a^([sic]) unifoliate strep.

1996 June 16, Justin Thyme, “Re: Streptocarpus”, in uk.rec.gardening (Usenet):


doghobble

Any of several species of shrubs belonging to genus Leucothoe.


dog-laurel

Any of several species of shrubs belonging to genus Leucothoe, especially Leucothoe fontanesiana, Leucothoe catesbaei, and Leucothoe editorum.


bog laurel

Kalmia polifolia, a close relative of mountain laurel.


kafferboom

(South Africa, now offensive) coral tree, especially Erythrina caffra


panga panga

From Swahili mpangapanga, possibly indirectly via a language of a colonial power.

A tree of the African species Millettia stuhlmannii, or its wood.


uhaloa

en-noun

uhaloa (countable and uncountable, plural uhaloas)

Waltheria indica, a plant in the mallow family.


symphyomyrtle

Partial calque of translingual Symphyomyrtus.


bridal wreath

Any of several plants with white flowers.


buffalo thorn

A tree, native to southern Africa, of species Ziziphus mucronata.


dholl

en-noun

dholl (countable and uncountable, plural dholls)

The next class of farinaceous foods are the Pulses, as peas, beans, and lentils of this country, and the dholls and grams of India.

As a reviver for exhausted soils dholl is one of the most effective things that can be grown on the Coast Lands.

1901 April 12, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 3, page 68:


waterboom

Afrikaans or English water + Afrikaans boom (“tree”)

On nearing Bacchus Marsh the country becomes wooded, mostly with stunted swamp gums, which look very much like our waterboom, a valueless kind of tree.

1901 July 19, “To Australia and Back”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 10, page 299:

(South Africa, archaic) Syzygium cordatum, a tree typically growing out of wet ground.


Syrian rue

Syrian rue (countable and uncountable, plural Syrian rues)

Peganum harmala
Peganum harmala#Translingual


wild rue

wild rue (countable and uncountable, plural wild rues)


wild Syrian rue

wild Syrian rue (plural wild Syrian rues)


wild almond

A tree of any of several species, similar in fruit to P. amygdalus

Prunus fasciculata, native to the southwestern United States


gungo pea

Around Christmastime, Jamaicans use small brown and green gungo peas (also known as pigeon peas or congo peas), but the rest of the year, when gungo peas are not in season, they often substitute red kidney beans.

2005, Janice Hamilton, Jamaica in Pictures (Visual Geography Series), Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications Company, →ISBN, page 55:


stubbard

They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree.

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 53:


lavandin

lavandin (usually uncountable, plural lavandins)

Abbreviation of translingual Lavandula × intermedia.

Lavandula angustifolia
Lavandula angustifolia#Translingual

A commercially important type of lavender, Lavandula × intermedia, which is a hybrid between English lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) and spike lavender, (Lavandula latifolia), combining the sweeter fragrance of the former with the stronger, faster growth of the latter.


June plum

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Spondias dulcis
Spondias dulcis#Translingual

(Jamaica, Bermuda) Spondias dulcis or its fruit.


honeyblob

(Scotland) A large, ripe, yellow gooseberry.


gubinge

Michael Morcombe a Graham Donation collecting gubinge fruit from coastal rainforest near Broome.

1988, Landscope: The Journal of the Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management, volumes 4-6, page 50:

A small tree from the northern part of Australia, Terminalia ferdinandiana.


sengon

A tall tree, Paraserianthes falcataria, native to the Moluccas, New Guinea, and the Solomons, but widely cultivated elsewhere for its timber.


lemon thyme

Cultivars of other species with a similar appearance and scent, especially the creeping species Thymus pulegioides.


English thyme

English thyme (usually uncountable, plural English thymes)

A common species of thyme grown for its use in cooking, Thymus vulgaris, especially a cultivated type with rounder, flatter and smoother leaves.


French thyme

French thyme (usually uncountable, plural French thymes)

A variety of English thyme with leaves that curl under along the sides and that have woolly hairs on the undersides, and which is often considered one of the best thymes for cooking.


caraway thyme

caraway thyme (usually uncountable, plural caraway thymes)

A creeping species of thyme native to the Mediterranean islands of Sardinia, Corsica and Majorca, which is grown for its caraway-scented leaves


creeping thyme

creeping thyme (usually uncountable, plural creeping thymes)

A species of thyme native to Europe and northern Africa, Thymus praecox, grown as a fragrant groundcover due to its tendency to branch and grow horizontally.

Thymus serpyllum
Thymus serpyllum#Translingual

Wild thyme, Thymus serpyllum, which has a similar habit.


Korean mint

Korean mint (usually uncountable, plural Korean mints)

An anise-scented Asian perennial herb, Agastache rugosa.


licorice mint

licorice mint (usually uncountable, plural licorice mints)


yellow acacia

A tall, fast-growing acacia, of species Acacia auriculiformis, native to Indonesia, Australia, and Papua New Guinea.


mock privet

mock privet (countable and uncountable, plural mock privets)

Phillyrea spp., native to the Mediterranean


silverballi

It has the usual aromatic scent, more pronounced than in the other Silverballis.

1946, Handbook of Natural Resources of British Guiana:

kurokai (Protium), dalli (Virola), baromalli (Catostemma), locust [courbaril] (Hymenaea), bulletwood (Manilkara), crabwood (Carapa), the silverballis (Lauraceae of the genera Ocotea, Aniba, Nectandra and Licaria), simarupa (Simaruba) and red cedar [South American cedar] (Cedrela).

1953, Colonial, numbers 291-295, H.M. Stationery Office:

Mora, simarupa, tauronira, wamara, silverballi, kabukalli, wallaba rolled off our tongues with the smoothness of the seeds we savoured.

2018 December 6, Indranie Deolall, “Kit, kin and “kinnah””, in Stabroek News:

Any of various trees of the laurel family, used for their wood.


European hophornbeam

European hophornbeam (plural European hophornbeams)

Ostrya carpinifolia
Ostrya carpinifolia#Translingual

Ostrya carpinifolia, found from Italy to coastal Turkey and east of the Black Sea.


acle

An ironwood tree (Xylia xylocarpa); the hard wood of this tree


carajura

Ultimately from a Cariban or Tupi-Guarani language; compare Ye'kwana küdayü, possessed form küdayüdü, Kari'na karawiru, Pemon karaweru, Wayampi karayuru.

A Brazilian plant, the cricket-vine (Fridericia chica).

A red pigment extracted from the leaves of this plant.


carpetweed

carpetweed (countable and uncountable, plural carpetweeds)

A low-growing North American weed (Mollugo verticillata).


chinchona

Alternative form of cinchona (“bark of the tree”)


chittamwood

chittamwood (countable and uncountable, plural chittamwoods)

A North American tree (Sideroxylon lanuginosum); the wood of this tree


citrangedin

(pomology) A citrus fruit that is a cross between a citrange and the calamondin.


golden penda

A native Australian tree, Xanthostemon chrysanthus, family Myrtaceae, of north Queensland, having large yellow flowers.


clapwort

A North American herb (Conopholis americana) that is parasitic on the roots of oak


pushki

Heracleum maximum
Heracleum maximum#Translingual


clownheal

The herb Stachys palustris, supposedly used to heal wounds to the feet made with a scythe


clusterberry

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Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Vaccinium vitis-idaea#Translingual


finger lime

A thorny understorey shrub or small tree, Citrus australasica, of lowland subtropical forest and rainforest of eastern Australia.


yareta

Azorella compacta, a South American flowering cushion plant in the family Apiaceae.


nailwort

nailwort (countable and uncountable, plural nailworts)

From nail + wort, formerly believed to cure whitlow.

Any species of Paronychia (whitlowwort).


Trincomalee wood

(obsolete) The wood of the tree Berrya cordifolia.


blushwort

Any of various plants of the genus Aeschynanthus.


tachibana orange

tachibana orange (plural tachibana oranges)

Citrus tachibana, or Citrus reticulata tachibana, a very bitter variety of mandarin orange.


orchid tree

Any of several species in the genus Bauhinia, many of which are grown for their showy flowers.


kahika

Borrowed from Maori kahika, from Proto-Polynesian *kafika (“Malay apple”), from Proto-Oceanic *kapika.


bronze fennel

en-noun

bronze fennel (usually uncountable, plural bronze fennels)

An ornamental variety of fennel having a dark, brownish purple tint to the foliage, and a stronger, less sweet flavor than the other cultivated varieties.


briar-root

briar-root (countable and uncountable, plural briar-roots)

The wood of this root used to make tobacco pipes.


lime-tree

His impassioned words buzzed about my ears like cockchafers round the top of the lime-trees.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 250:

A deciduous tree of the genus Tilia, especially Tilia × europaea; the linden tree.

Any of various trees of the genus Citrus that bear limes.


rauli

Nothofagus alpina, a deciduous tree of Chile and Argentina.


penny-grass

/ˈpɛniˌɡɹɑːs/

/ˈpɛniˌɡɹæs/

From Middle English peny gras; equivalent to penny + grass.

Another Graſs is called Penny-Graſs; it groweth low, cloſe to the Earth, in mooriſh Grounds; it hath a Leaf as broad as Twopence , but never beareth a Flower.

1670, J. B., The Epitome of the Art of Husbandry […] , London: Benjamin Billingſley, page 180:

Nor taint-worm ſhall infect the yeaning herds / Nor penny-graſs, nor ſpearwort's poiſ'nous leaf.

1757, John Dyer, “Book I”, in The Fleece: A Poem […] , London: R. and J. Dodsley, page 40:

Plants reported killed by copper sulphate solutions: Wild mustard, wild radish, wild barley, penny grass (if young), shepherds' purse , wild buckwheat[…]

1904, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Division of Zoology, Zoological Bulletin, volume 2, page 45:

(obsolete) yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor).


mooseberry

Viburnum edule
Viburnum edule#Translingual

Viburnum edule, the pembina or lowbush cranberry.


muskflower

The monkeyflower (Erythranthe moschata).


kippersol

(South Africa) A South African tree of the genus Cussonia


konini

The New Zealand shrub Fuchsia excorticata; the berry of this plant


naio

Myoporum sandwicense, a flowering plant in the figwort family.


wallum

wallum (countable and uncountable, plural wallums)

A shrub, Banksia aemula, that grows there.


xanthoxylon

A tree of the species Zygophyllum xanthoxylon.

(rare) A tree of the species Nauclea xanthoxylon.


guatambu

The flowering tree Balfourodendron riedelianum.


grouse whortleberry

grouse whortleberry (plural grouse whortleberries)

Vaccinium scoparium, a species of huckleberry.


grouseberry

grouse whortleberry
grouse whortleberry#English


bat nut

From the resemblance in shape to a bat (flying mammal).


katurai

Sesbania grandiflora
Sesbania grandiflora#Translingual


vegetable hummingbird

vegetable hummingbird (plural vegetable hummingbirds)

A tree with edible flowers, of the species Sesbania grandiflora.


keruing

keruing (usually uncountable, plural keruings)

A hardwood timber from Malaysia and Indonesia, genus Dipterocarpus


khair

The tree Senegalia catechu from which cutch is obtained


kitty crack

In reference to cats' fondness for the plant; see crack (“form of cocaine”).


elcaja

From its taxonomic name Elcaja roka by Peter Forsskål, modelled after its Arabic names جَوْز القَيْء (jawz al-qayʔ) and رُقَع (ruqaʕ).

Trichilia emetica
Trichilia emetica#Translingual

(obsolete) Trichilia emetica, an Arabian tree whose fruit is an emetic.


paradise nut

The selenium-rich nut of various Lecythis species.


star mangrove

A species of mangrove, Sonneratia alba, native to the tropics and subtropics of east Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the western Pacific.


earwort

Sempervivum tectorum
Sempervivum tectorum#Translingual


Engelmann spruce

Engelmann spruce (plural Engelmann spruces)

Named after George Engelmann (1809–1884), German-American botanist.

named-after

Picea engelmannii, a spruce native to western North America.


water hyssop

Any of the genus Bacopa of aquatic plants, especially


algodoncillo

Bauhinia picta, a fabaceous plant found in Colombia, Panama, and Venezuela.


knobweed

en-noun

knobweed (usually uncountable, plural knobweeds)

Hyptis capitata, an erect annual lamiaceous shrub.


Persian cumin

Persian cumin (usually uncountable, plural Persian cumins)


kabuli

The availability of a large number of resistant lines in desi and kabuli background should help breeders develop resistant and high-yielding cultivars. It was earlier believed that kabulis lack resistant genes to ascochyta blight but screening a large collection revealed many lines having a high level of resistance.

1984, M.C. Saxena, editor, Ascochyta Blight and Winter Sowing of Chickpeas:

Two distinct chickpea types, different in their morphology and used in different ways of processing have been described: desi and kabuli.

2018, Rajeev K. Varshney, The Chickpea Genome, page 108:

A particular variety of cultivated chickpea.


matatabi

matatabi (countable and uncountable, plural matatabis)

Species of plant of the genus Actinidia, family Actinidiaceae


inside-out flower

inside-out flower (plural inside-out flowers)

Any of the flowering plants of the genus Vancouveria in the barberry family.


caimitillo

Chrysophyllum oliviforme, the satinleaf.


Wealthy

Named by Peter Gideon (1820–1899), creator of the cultivar, after his wife, Wealthy (Hull) Gideon.

Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers.

1975, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Joy of Cooking, page 129:

A certain cultivar of American apple from Minnesota.


twinspur

From twin + spur, in reference to the two (usually downward-pointing) spurs to be found on the back of the flower.

(botany) Any of the flowering plants of genus Diascia.


djave nut

The nut of the tree Baillonella toxisperma.


Fameuse

A kind of sweet red apple originating in Canada.


white gum

He nodded at a slope once covered in white gums, a folk memory returning.

2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 151

Any of numerous Eucalyptus species having smooth white bark.


jamwood

The hard timber of the jam tree (Acacia acuminata).


coast live oak

Any of species Quercus agrifolia, an evergreen oak with cupped, holly-like leaves native to areas on the coastal side of the high mountains in California and neighboring Baja California.


Utah juniper

A shrub or small tree (Juniperus osteosperma) native to the Great Basin region of the western US.


matalafi

Use matalafi leaves; pound and mix with water; apply to the swelling.

2001 May 13, Samoan Medical Plants and Their Usage, ADAP Project, →ISBN, page A8:

Psychotria insularum
Psychotria insularum#Translingual

A shrub, of species Psychotria insularum, used for medicine and found in American Samoa, Niue, Samoa, and Tonga.


porterweed

Any of various plants in the genus Stachytarpheta of the verbena family.


Chinese rosewood

Chinese rosewood (usually uncountable, plural Chinese rosewoods)

Dalbergia odorifera
Dalbergia odorifera#Translingual

A Chinese tree with fragrant wood, Dalbergia odorifera.


Indian lilac

Melia azedarach
Melia azedarach#Translingual


western prickly juniper

western prickly juniper (plural western prickly junipers)

Juniperus oxycedrus
Juniperus oxycedrus#Translingual

(botany) A juniper (Juniperus oxycedrus), native across the Mediterranean region from Morocco and Portugal, north to southern France, east to westernmost Iran, and south to Lebanon and Israel


rhodie

The banging of rhodie leaves against one another and against other plants can damage them.

1969, Ted Van Veen, Rhododendrons in America, Portland, Or.: Binford & Mort Publishing, published 1980, →ISBN, page 118:

It was my first sight of Rhododendron griersonianum – a “dry soil rhodie”, according to Mr White – and Menziesia ciliicalyx, Clethra delavayi and Enkianthus pallidiflorus were fresh to my eyes.

1983, Graham Stuart Thomas, Graham Stuart Thomas’ Three Gardens of Pleasant Flowers: With Notes on Their Design, Maintenance, and Plants, Capability’s Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 34:

It had dark green shiny leaves like a rhodie, but its flowers looked like giant purple pansies.

1995, Robert K. Tanenbaum, Corruption of Blood, Dutton, →ISBN, page 139:


lucky clover

A four-leaf clover, believed to bring good luck

Any four-leaf variant of the normally three-leaf species of clover of genus Trifolium


dwarf beech

Fagus sylvatica
Fagus sylvatica#Translingual

Fagus sylvatica Tortuosa Group, a rare cultivar group of the European beech tree.


rosary pea

Abrus precatorius
Abrus precatorius#Translingual

A leguminous plant, of species Abrus precatorius, or its round, red, poisonous seeds which are sometimes used as beads.


Guinea sorrel

Hibiscus sabdariffa
Hibiscus sabdariffa#Translingual

The plant roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa).


red sorrel

Rumex acetosella
Rumex acetosella#Translingual


meadow beauty

Any of the genus Rhexia of flowering plants in the family Melastomataceae.


Siberian crab apple

Siberian crab apple (plural Siberian crab apples)

Malus baccata
Malus baccata#Translingual

(botany, pomology) Any of the species Malus baccata of apples, of Asia.


Siberian pea-tree

Siberian pea-tree (plural Siberian pea-trees)

(botany) A species of legume, Caragana arborescens native to Siberia, parts of China and neighboring Mongolia and Kazakhstan.


Chinese crab apple

Chinese crab apple (plural Chinese crab apples)

Siberian crab apple
Siberian crab apple#English

Synonym of Siberian crab apple (Malus baccata).


Manchurian crab apple

Manchurian crab apple (plural Manchurian crab apples)


gold mohur

Corruption of Hindi [Term?], influenced by mohur (“a gold coin”).

Caesalpinia pulcherrima
Caesalpinia pulcherrima#Translingual

(India) The fabaceous flowering plant Caesalpinia pulcherrima.


field mint

From Middle English *feld-minte, from Old English feldminte, equivalent to field + mint.


wild mint

From Middle English wyldemynt, wilde mente, equivalent to wild + mint.

Any aromatic North American mint of the species Hedeoma pulegioides.


sermountain

From Middle English sermontayne, from Old French sermontain. The modern English form has been remodelled after mountain.

Take of the freſh Roots of both Peonies, at Full Moon, each one Ounce and an half; ſlice them, and infuſe them in white-wine for the ſpace of a Day; of Contrayerra^([sic]) half an Ounce, of Sermountain ſix Drams[…]

1694, John Pechey, “Peony, in Latin Paeonia”, in The compleat herbal of physical plants, Henry Bonwicke, page 146:

La Cerda fancies it to be the Siler montanum, or Sermountain, because he thinks it more elegant for the poet to speak of two which grow in the plains, and two in the rivers[…]

1814, “Liber Secundus”, in Vergil, edited by John Martyn, Georgicorum libri quatuor, 4th edition, Oxford: W. Baxter, page 112:

[…]though both sermountain species grew abundantly among young Scots pines on the rocky, south-facing slope bordering the road.

1990, Bulletin de la Société entomologique suisse, volumes 62-63, Schweizerische Entomologische Gesellschaft, page 304:

(now rare) A plant of the genus Laserpitium.


horseshoe vetch

horseshoe vetch (plural horseshoe vetches)

often Hippocrepis comosa specifically, tufted horseshoe vetch


amelanchier

Any tree or shrub in the genus Amelanchier of the pome fruit subtribe Malinae of the family Rosaceae, with edible, blueberry-like fruit.


earth pea

Vigna subterranea (Bambara groundnut, jugo bean)


goldenpert

Wetland plants commonly associated with sandy soils include goldenpert (Gratiola aurea) in freshwater areas […]

2016, Ralph W. Tiner, Wetland Indicators:

The plant Gratiola aurea, the golden hedgehyssop.


paullinia

[…]; the far-spreading shoots of the mellifluous paullinias, of the burning dalechampias and the bauhinia with its strangely lobated leaves;

1824, Joh[ann] Bapt[ist] von Spix, C[arl] F[riedrich] Phil[ipp] von Martius, Travels in Brazil, in the Years 1817-1820. Undertaken by Command of His Majesty the King of Bavaria., volume the first, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], pages 241–242:

The road along the slope of the mountain was so pretty, among myrtles, begonias, and paullinias;

1830, [Jane Marcet], Bertha’s Visit to Her Uncle in England, volume I, London: John Murray, […], page 46:

A delightful residence was made of the house; it was raised a storey, surrounded by a verandah, and half hidden under beautiful trees—mimosas, fig-sycamores, bauhinias, and paullinias, whose trunks were invisible beneath a network of scarlet-flowered bromelias and passion-flowers.

1881, Jules Verne, translated by W. J. Gordon, The Giant Raft (Part I); Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, […], page 32:

Every day brought new flowers, forcing them out of the ground in motley patterns in the gardens by the sea, pouring them out over the branches of the trees down there—paullinias like giant violets and magnolias like huge purple-stained tulips.

1919, J[ens] P[eter] Jacobsen, translated by Hanna Astrup Larsen, Niels Lyhne, New York, N.Y.: The American-Scandinavian Foundation; London: Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, page 126:


Brazil cherry

Physalis peruviana
Physalis peruviana#Translingual

Synonym of Cape gooseberry (“Physalis peruviana”)


Cusick's biscuitroot

Cusick's biscuitroot (plural Cusick's biscuitroots)

Lomatium cusickii, a species of perennial herb.


Appalachian Jacob's ladder

Appalachian Jacob's ladder (plural not attested)

Polemonium vanbruntiae, a species of flowering plant.


prickly hakea

Hakea amplexicaulis, a thorny species of bush.


bridal tree

Xanthostemon paradoxus, a species of shrub or tree.


yellow-flowered water hyssop

yellow-flowered water hyssop (plural yellow-flowered water hyssops)

Mecardonia procumbens, a species of herb.


Brazilian orchid tree

Brazilian orchid tree (plural Brazilian orchid trees)

Bauhinia forficata, a species of flowering tree.


wild orange

Several species of wild Citrus fruit, especially Citrus macroptera.


Mueller's geebung

Mueller's geebung (plural Mueller's geebungs)

Persoonia muelleri, a species of Tasmanian shrub.


pecan tree

A tree of the species Carya illinoinensis, the members of which are valued agriculturally for their fruit, the pecan, and the wood of the tree, pecan wood, used in woodworking as well as smoking meats.


fraughan

Borrowed from Irish fraochán (“blueberry, bilberry”).

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Unlike the Wicklow Gold Mines at Mount Croughan, / Where thrives that Lilliputian Tree, the Fraughan.

1824, Rory O'Reilly, Retrospection, Dublin: J. Carrick & Son, page 2:

His bare feet, as they trod the heather and fraughan beneath them , sent a thrill of primitive ecstacy to his expectant mind.

1906, W. M. Letts, “Paudeen in the Woods”, in Temple Bar, volume 1, London: Macmillan & Co., page 553:

Over the centuries and over the seasons, fruit gathering became woven into the fabric of Irish rural life and the fraughan, being the first of the wild berries to ripen, was the occasion for an outing.

2018 May 3, Margaret Hickey, Ireland’s Green Larder: The Definitive History of Irish Food, Unbound, →ISBN, page 38:

Vaccinium myrtillus
Vaccinium myrtillus#Translingual

(Ireland) The bilberry or whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus).


desert pea

(botany) an Australian plant in the genus Swainsona, distinctive for its blood red leaf-like flowers


Palmer's liveforever

en-noun

Palmer's liveforever (plural Palmer's liveforevers)

Dudleya palmeri, a species of Californian plant.


forest star

Attested at least in a work pertaining to Zimbabwean flora published in 1990.

(Zambia, Zimbabwe) Mussaenda arcuata, a shrub species of the family Rubiaceae with a star-shaped 5-lobed yellow corolla, whose centre is also star-shaped and hairy, orange to brown in colour; native range is Tropical Africa and Western Indian Ocean.


tibouchina

Any of various species of myrtalean trees of the genus Tibouchina, native to tropical America, many of which are used as garden ornamentals.


Brazilian cherry

Brazilian cherry (plural Brazilian cherries)

Any of several plants native to the New World tropics, with edible fruits:

Eugenia brasiliensis, endemic to southern Brazil.

Hymenaea courbaril
Hymenaea courbaril#Translingual

Hymenaea courbaril (jatoba), in the legume family.


chinchilla wattle

chinchilla wattle (plural chinchilla wattles)

Acacia chinchillensis, a species of flowering plant native to Australia.


golden conebush

golden conebush (plural golden conebushes)

Leucadendron laureolum, a species of South African plant.


Tasmanian blackwood

Tasmanian blackwood (plural Tasmanian blackwoods)

He led the way into a small bedroom with green skirting and mustard yellow panels carved from Tasmanian blackwood.

2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 304

The four walls of the library's reading room are covered from the floor almost to the ceiling in Tasmanian-blackwood bookcases.

2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 167:

A tree, Acacia melanoxylon, native to eastern Australia and Tasmania, or (especially) the dark wood of this tree.


silver-leaved bloodwood

silver-leaved bloodwood (plural silver-leaved bloodwoods)

Corymbia collina, a species of bloodwood tree native to Australia.


tabanuco

Synonym of candlewood (“the tree Dacryodes excelsa”)


agoho

DENR entomologists recall that beetle infestation of the agohos is similar to another which killed thousands of pine trees in Benguet in 1981.

1989, The Philippine Lumberman, volume 35:

Casuarina equisetifolia
Casuarina equisetifolia#Translingual

(Philippines) The tree Casuarina equisetifolia.


river red gum

Around lunchtime we crossed a creek with river-red-gums growing in its bed.

1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 128:

Eucalyptus camaldulensis
Eucalyptus camaldulensis#Translingual

(Australia) A red gum tree of species Eucalyptus camaldulensis (syn. E. rostrata Schltdl., nom. illeg.).


North Island eyebright

North Island eyebright (plural North Island eyebrights)

From North Island (island of New Zealand) + eyebright (plant of genus "Euphrasia").

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Euphrasia cuneata, a species of New Zealand broomrape plant.


Mexican hat plant

en-noun

Mexican hat plant (plural Mexican hat plants)

Kalanchoe daigremontiana, a succulent plant native to Madagascar.


golden pea

(horticulture) Any of various Mirbelioids with small yellow flowers.


yellow box

gray-box testing
white box (software engineering)

‘[T]he old man would sit his horse out there in the shade of a yellowbox that grew just outside the garden fence.’

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 61:

Deep in the bush, beneath the pale disc of the moon, a dozen men gathered around a yellow-box fire.

2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 284:

(Australia) Any of various eucalyptus trees, especially Eucalyptus melliodora of southeastern Australia.

See also: severe thunderstorm watch

(informal, US, meteorology) A "tornado watch" notification category.


turquoiseberry

Any of various plants with blue berries, or the berries themselves:


sapphireberry

The plant Symplocos paniculata or its blue berry.


gumbi gumbi

Bo said, ‘Them bloody doctors are no good to you, old mate. You ought to come down to Ranna with us and get yourself a good dose of cumby cumby.’

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 122:

A small shrub with little star-shaped yellow flowers and yellow/orange-skinned fruit, gumbi gumbi (Pittosporum angustifolium) is found throughout the drier areas of Australia […].

2022, John Newton, Cooking With the Oldest Foods on Earth:

(Australia) A shrub or small tree, Pittosporum angustifolium, growing in inland Australia, used by Aboriginal peoples for food and medicine.


sallee wattle

The gate was five-barred, put together from crooked tree limbs, grey corkwood and sally wattle, iron coachbolts drilled through at the joints […].

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 127:

(Australia) Any of various Australian acacias, especially Acacia longifolia of southeastern Australia and Tasmania.


grey corkwood

(Australia) A flowering tree, Erythrina vespertilio, of north and northeastern Australia.


marlberry

Any of various plants of the genus Ardisia.


silver-leaved ironbark

silver-leaved ironbark (plural silver-leaved ironbarks)

Annabelle recognised the silver-leaved ironbarks, stunted and twisted in their growth, pale golden wattle in bloom, the dense scrub pressing to the verge of the road.

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 270:

A small tree with blue-grey foliage, Eucalyptus melanophloia, of Queensland and northern New South Wales.


forked riceflower

forked riceflower (plural forked riceflowers)

Pimelea hewardiana, a species of Australian flowering shrub.


goldfish plant

Columnea microcalyx, a species of plant named after its flowers' visual similarity to goldfish.


Egyptian thorn

Vachellia nilotica nilotica, a perennial tree native to Africa.


terminalian

From translingual Terminalia + -an, from Latin terminus. From Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“boundary”).

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translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Terminalia</i>

Any large tree and flowering plant of the genus Terminalia.


Chinese trumpet vine

en-noun

Chinese trumpet vine (plural Chinese trumpet vines)

Campsis grandiflora
Campsis grandiflora#Translingual


golden larch

Any conifer of the genus Pseudolarix, which are not true larches.


narrow-leaved mallee

narrow-leaved mallee (plural narrow-leaved mallees)

Eucalyptus angustissima, a species of mallee eucalyptus tree.


August plum

(botany) A wild plum tree of eastern and central North America having red-orange fruit with yellow flesh (Prunus americana).


wavy-leaved eremophila

wavy-leaved eremophila (plural wavy-leaved eremophilas)

Eremophila undulata, a species of eremophila plant in the figwort family.


spurge olive

(botany) Synonym of spurge-laurel (Thymelaea passerina).


witch alder

Any of the low-growing, flowering deciduous shrubs of the genus Fothergilla, native to woodland and swamps of the southeastern United States.


witch's bells

I wonder whether the witches would be wearing on their fingers their ornaments of foxglove blossoms, often called witches' bells or harebells, sometimes known as witches' thimbles.

1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 258:


emu berry

Any of various Australian plants:
Podocarpus drouynianus.


speckled alder

Gripping the long branch of a speckled alder tree, ecologist Deborah Landau slowly steps into the waist-deep murky water.

2022 June 3, Mark Hendricks, The Guardian:

A tree, Alnus incana, of the northern hemisphere.


hedysarum

Any of the sweetvetches of the genus Hedysarum.


red princess flower

red princess flower (plural red princess flowers)

From red + princess flower (Pleroma urvilleanum), to distinguish from the princess flower's purple color.

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Chaetogastra grossa (also identified as Tibouchina grossa), a species of chaetogastran melastome.


Flemish beauty

en-noun

Flemish beauty (plural Flemish beauties)

A reddish-yellow pear cultivar of Belgian origin.


common hop bush

common hop bush (plural common hop bushes)

A hopbush, of species Dodonaea triquetra, found in eastern Australia.


Himalayan balsam

"We then analyse those images using artificial intelligence to identify tree types and invasive species such as Japanese knotweed and Himalayan balsam.

2022 June 29, Paul Clifton, “Using AI technology to manage lineside vegetation”, in RAIL, number 960, page 32:

A large annual plant, Impatiens glandulifera, native to the Himalayas, which has become invasive in many other places.


blue oak

Synonym of bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa).


Hubbardston Nonesuch

Hubbardston Nonesuch (plural Hubbardston Nonesuches)

Named after the Massachusetts town of Hubbardston

A green/orange heirloom apple originating in New England.


umbrellawort

Any of various plants in the genus Mirabilis.


mountain apple

Fresh breezes sweep down the mountains, laden with the perfumes of the orange, the banana, pine-apple, and mountain apple trees […]

1861, chapter XXV, in Ira Jones, Life and Adventure in the South Pacific, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 324:

The mountain apple is very refreshing to eat because of the large amount of water present and the delicate flavor. It is most frequently eaten out of hand, but may be cut up and used in salads and cocktails.

1936 January 13, Casey D. Miller, Katherine Bazore, Ruth C. Robbins, Some Fruits of Hawaii: Their Composition, Nutritive Value and Use (Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletins; 77), University of Hawaii, United States Department of Agriculture, page 55:

Mountain apple, or ʻōhi'a ʻai, was one of the twenty-four “canoe plants” brought to Hawaiʻi by Polynesian voyagers over 1,500 years ago.

2014, Derek Kurisu, “Honoring the Family of KTA Super Stores”, in Aiko Yamashiro, Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua, editors, The Value of Hawaiʻi 2: Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Visions, Biographical Research Center, →ISBN, page 78:

Syzygium malaccense
Syzygium malaccense#Translingual

(especially Hawaii) The Malay apple or pommerac (Syzygium malaccense).


whitevein shinleaf

whitevein pyrola
whitevein pyrola#English


creeping sage

Salvia sonomensis, a species of sage with blue to purple flowers.


breadroot scurfpea

breadroot scurfpea (plural breadroot scurfpeas)


breadroot scurf pea

breadroot scurf pea (plural breadroot scurf peas)

breadroot scurfpea
breadroot scurfpea#English


nakedwood

nakedwood (countable and uncountable, plural nakedwoods)

Any of various plants in the genus Colubrina.


sourtop blueberry

sourtop blueberry (plural sourtop blueberries)


coffee tree

Any tree, such as the Coffea arabica, which yields coffee beans.

Kentucky coffeetree
Kentucky coffeetree#English


Chinese swamp cypress

Chinese swamp cypress (plural Chinese swamp cypresses)

[…]the branchlets of the bald cypresses, and those of the smaller Chinese swamp cypresses growing with them, turned to a rusty orange colour and were shed.

1977, Dale A[lan] Russell, A Vanished World: The Dinosaurs of Western Canada (Natural History Series No. 4), Ottawa, Ont.: National Museum of Natural Sciences, →ISBN, page 81:

The Chinese swamp cypress is deciduous, and it occurs naturally only on riverbanks and in swamps.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 99:

A deciduous tree of species Glyptostrobus pensilis, native to subtropical parts of southeastern China.


Texas ebony

(botany) An evergreen tree of Texas and Mexico, Ebenopsis ebano.


blackbead

A tree or shrub of the genus Pithecellobium, native to the Americas.


copperpod

Either of two ornamental trees, Peltophorum pterocarpum of Southeast Asia or Peltophorum dubium of South America.


quamwood

Brazilian firetree
Brazilian firetree#English


Scotsman's rattle

Scotsman's rattle (plural Scotsman's rattles)


Sturt's desert pea

Sturt's desert pea (plural Sturt's desert peas)

Named after Charles Sturt (1795–1869), British officer and explorer, who recorded seeing large quantities of the flowers while exploring central Australia in 1844.

Innovative New York City floral artists such as Emily Thompson have long valued Australian plants, including spiky banksia, spidery Grevillea and Swainsona formosa — also known as Strut’s desert pea,^([sic]) which resembles a multieyed visitor from another galaxy — but local designers were raised to regard native species as mundane and overly rustic.

2022 September 23, Besha Rodell, “Australian Floral Designs That, at Long Last, Embrace Australian Flora”, in The New York Times Style Magazine:

A wildflower endemic to Australia, Swainsona formosa, known for its distinctive blood-red leaflike flowers, each with a bulbous black centre.


phylica

In the showroom of a local carpet company, Avery, 31, gathered hydrangea and South African phylica into thick, twisted cords that meandered from wall to wall like alien coral.

Any of the flowering plants of the genus Phylica, the majority of which are restricted to South Africa.


snowy mespilus

snowy mespilus (plural snowy mespiluses)

From snowy + mespilus, a borrowing from translingual Mespilus, the genus they were formerly in.

Multiple species in the genus Amelanchier:

Amelanchier ovalis, also called the Savoy medlar.


Cleopatra mandarin

Cleopatra mandarin (plural Cleopatra mandarins)

A citrus tree (Citrus reshni) with fruit resembling the lemon.


madweed

Synonym of hoodwort (“the plant Scutellaria galericulata”)


nannybush

Viburnum lentago
Viburnum lentago#Translingual

(rare) The sheepberry or nannyberry plant (Viburnum lentago).


cacahuananche

From Spanish, from Nahuatl cacahuanantzin.

A tree originally from Mexico to Colombia, Gliricidia sepium, grown in the tropics worldwide to shade crops such as cacao and coffee, as well as for intercropping due to its nitrogen-fixing roots.


great northern bean

great northern bean (plural great northern beans)

A large navy bean that has a flattened shape similar to lima beans and a delicate flavor.


Brazilian firetree

Brazilian firetree (plural Brazilian firetrees)

Schizolobium parahyba, a tree species from tropical America, notable for its fast growth.


jocuma

The flowering plant Sideroxylon foetidissimum.


maash

From descendants of Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “mung bean”).


Missouri gooseberry

Missouri gooseberry (plural Missouri gooseberries)

A prickly, many-stemmed shrub with edible fruit, Ribes missouriense, native to the northcentral United States.


Missouri currant

Missouri currant (plural Missouri currants)

Missouri gooseberry
Missouri gooseberry#English


bigfruit evening primrose

bigfruit evening primrose (plural bigfruit evening primroses)

A species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family Onagraceae.


Missouri evening primrose

Missouri evening primrose (plural Missouri evening primroses)

bigfruit evening primrose
bigfruit evening primrose#English


Khoi cherry

A small, rounded tree, Maurocenia frangula, endemic to Western Cape, South Africa.


Hottentot cherry

Hottentot's cherry (plural Hottentot cherries)

Hottentot's cherry (canonical)
Hottentot cherries (plural)


shortia

(botany) Any of the subshrubs and perennial herbs of the genus Shortia.


shadberry

From shad + berry; see explanation at shadbush.

Synonym of shadbush (“plant in the genus Amelanchier”)


dragon's teeth

dragon's teeth pl (normally plural, singular dragon's tooth)

Coordinate term: Czech hedgehog

Experiments showed that twenty-five to fifty pounds of explosives often was needed to break a single dragon's tooth, and large pillboxes required half a ton.

2013, Rick Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945 (The Liberation Trilogy; 3), New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 251:

“Dragon’s teeth have likely been installed between Mariupol and Nikolske village; and from northern Mariupol to Staryi Krym village. […] Dragon’s teeth have additionally been sent for the preparation of defensive fortifications in occupied Zaporizhzhia and Kherson,” the intelligence assessment said.

2022 November 8, Peter Beaumont, “Russia installs ‘dragon’s teeth’ barriers to slow advance of Ukrainian forces”, in The Guardian:

(military) Square-pyramidal fortifications of reinforced concrete to impede the movement of tanks and mechanised infantry.

Drachenzähne

fortifications to impede the movement of tanks

Coordinate term: shark's teeth

The new line markings – known internationally as dragon's teeth – are designed to make sure motorists know they are entering a 40kmh school zone. […] "It's our aim to get these new dragon's teeth out on our streets as quickly as possible, which is why we'll be enlisting the help of several different crews around the state to get started on this massive rollout."

2009 May 24, Lisa Carty, “Dragon's teeth to guard school zones”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, road transport) A series of triangular road surface markings painted on each side of a traffic lane, used for traffic calming or to alert drivers to a speed limit.

Lotus maritimus, a plant in the legume family.


moon carrot

Seseli libanotis, a Eurasian herb of the carrot family.


sickleweed

An herb of the carrot family, Falcaria vulgaris.


sweet cicely

Myrrhis odorata
Myrrhis odorata#Translingual

Any of various herbs of the genus Osmorhiza, related to and similar in appearance to those in species Myrrhis odorata.


aniseroot

Any of certain North American herbs of the genus Osmorhiza.


woodbalm

Lepechinia calycina, an herb native to California.


yellowshow

A tropical American herb of the genus Amoreuxia.


buttercup tree

Either of two trees, Cochlospermum religiosum and Cochlospermum vitifolium, of India and Latin America respectively.


Belle de Boskoop

Belle de Boskoop (plural Belle de Boskoops)

Conversely, the Belle de Boskoop, a greenish-yellow apple with rough skin, perfectly crisp and tangy, only tastes better when you store it for several months before eating it. Chefs love Belle de Boskoops for their ability to hold up in the oven.

2018, Angie Quaale, Eating Local in the Fraser Valley, Random House, →ISBN:

A tart and fragrant apple cultivar which originated in Boskoop, Netherlands.


dyer's buckthorn

dyer's buckthorn (countable and uncountable, plural dyer's buckthorns)

A species of buckthorn, Rhamnus saxatilis, that produces a yellow dye.


creek plum

A shrub native to the central United States, Prunus rivularis, which produces bitter berries.


Queen Anne's thimbles

A blue North American flower of the phlox family, Gilia capitata.


monkey fruit

Aegle marmelos
Aegle marmelos#Translingual

Limonia acidissima
Limonia acidissima#Translingual

The fruit of various trees, especially monkey jack (Artocarpus spp.), lemon drop and other varieties of mangosteen (Garcinia spp.), wood apple (Aegle marmelos or Limonia acidissima), or giant yellow mulberry (Myrianthus arboreus).


field eryngo

/fiːld iːˈɹɪŋɡəʊ/

Calque of translingual Eryngium campestre.

calque

Eryngium capestre
Eryngium capestre#Translingual

A European medicinal herb (Eryngium capestre) of the carrot family.


Watling Street thistle

en-noun

Watling Street thistle (plural Watling Street thistles)


tail grape

A climbing plant of the genus Artabotrys, which produces inedible grape-looking fruit.


chickling pea

chickling pea (countable and uncountable, plural chickling peas)


flame of the forest

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-flame of the forest.wav

Delonix regia, native to Madagascar; royal poinciana, flamboyant tree.

Delonix regia
Delonix regia#Translingual


fire moss

A white-flowered Arctic heather, Cassiope tetragona.


coral heath

An eastern Australian shrub (Epacris microphylla).


hot bean

From hot + bean, from the bean's steep increase in temperature after being rubbed on a hard surface. Children sometimes use this property in pranks.


red mammee

Coordinate term: yellow mammee

A Caribbean tree, Pouteria hotteana, of the sapote family.


scaleseed

Any of a genus, Spermolepis, of American herbs of the carrot family.


juazeiro

The police trotted out there, amid juazeiro trees with sharp-edged branches and thickets of velame that irritated their skins.

1984, Helen R. Lane, transl., The War of the End of the World, London: Folio Society, translation of La guerra del fin del mundo by Mario Vargas Llosa, published 2012, page 40:

Behind his private tent was a yard enclosed by barbed wire and shaded by the camp's only juazeiro tree.

2008, Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Seamstress, New York: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 565:

Due to its drought resistance, juazeiro is very important economically for the northeast region of Brazil, and practically all parts of the plant are used by the population.

2021, “Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Wild Medicinal Plants of Piauí State-Brazil” (chapter 8), in Mahendra Rai, Shandesh Bhattarai, Chistiane M. Feitosa, editors, Ethnopharmacology of Wild Plants, Boca Raton: CRC Press, →DOI, page 271:

A small shrub, Sarcomphalus joazeiro, of the buckthorn family, native to Brazil.


angico

Scattered about everywhere, bundles of angico bark, scored through with the aid of a hammer and a knife.

1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 66:

I recorded that rock cavies were known to eat the bark of the angico tree, a local tree with a bark rich in tannins that was used to tan goat hides.

2009, Michael A. Mares, A Desert Calling, page 190:

A leguminous tree, Anadenanthera colubrina, native to South America, with traditional medicinal properties and tannin-rich wood used in tanning.


cocky apple

Planchonia careya, an Australian fruit tree of the Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae).


imbuzeiro

Travellers upon this journey have sometimes perished for thirst, and sometimes owed their lives to the Imbuzeiro, … a remarkable tree, with which bountiful Providence has blessed the most arid regions of Brazil: bulbs, about a palm in diameter, and full of water, like water-melons, are attached to its shallow roots.

1819, Robert Southey, chapter XLIV, in History of Brazil, 3rd part, London: […] [William Pople] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], →OCLC, page 757:

Rudino sees the albino girl, still sitting on the ground, and two black vultures at the top of an imbuzeiro, clearing their throats like old men.

1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 289:

Spondias mombin
Spondias mombin#Translingual

A hog plum (Spondias mombin), native to the tropical Americas.


umburana

"For safety I maintained my distance from that ill-famed house and settled under an umburana tree at the curve of a road."

1970, Josué de Castro, translated by Susan Hertelendy, Of Men and Crabs, page 102:

Two calves frisked outside beneath the umburana tree.

1972, Peggie Benton, One Man Against the Drylands:

Once again he sees the landscape […] become a phantasmagoria, with strange human fruit hanging from the umburanas and the thornbushes, and boots, scabbards, tunics, kepis dangling from the branches.

1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 343:

A species of leguminous tree, Amburana cearensis, native to South America and often used for timber.


pitangueira

The pitangueira, or pitangua tree, is very abundant; peaches are not met with.

1821, James Henderson, A History of the Brazil, page 141:

In the distance, above the crotons, the branches of the mango, ficus, guava, and pitangueira trees in the garden, the sun was turning the sea as blinding white as a sheet of steel.

1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 421:

Due to the easy adaptation of pitangueira trees (Eugenia uniflora Linneus), this species is widely distributed in South American countries, and in several states in Brazil.

2021, Maria Margarida Cortez Vieira, Lorenzo Pastrana, José Aguilera, Sustainable Innovation in Food Product Design, page 6:

A Suriname cherry tree, Eugenia uniflora, native to the east coast of South America.


cainito

cainito (countable and uncountable, plural cainitos)

From Latin cainito, from Spanish caimito, from Lokono.


bastard teak

bastard teak (countable and uncountable, plural bastard teaks)

Butea monosperma
Butea monosperma#Translingual

Butea monosperma, of south and southeast Asia, with many uses.


bitter buchu

A small shrub of the genus Diosma, native to South Africa.


death-of-man

Cicuta maculata, a highly poisonous flowering plant native to nearly all of North America.


fish poison tree

fish poison tree (plural fish poison trees)

Barringtonia asiatica
Barringtonia asiatica#Translingual

A tree of species Barringtonia asiatica, of the Brazil nut family, that yields a poison, native to tropical islands of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific.


nalta jute

Corchorus olitorius
Corchorus olitorius#Translingual

A species of shrub, Corchorus olitorius, used for fiber and as a food.


spiderhead

Serruria, a South African flowering plant.


kadala

kadala (usually uncountable, plural kadalas)

Borrowed from Dravidian languages, compare Malayalam കടല (kaṭala), Tamil கடலை (kaṭalai).


flaming Katy

Kalanchoe blossfeldiana, a Madagascan plant commonly cultivated as a houseplant.


perfumed cherry

perfumed cherry (plural perfumed cherries)


burbark

A tropical shrub of the genus Triumfetta.


sand daphne

A shrub from New Zealand, Pimelea villosa.


Strathmore weed

Pimelea prostrata, a shrub from New Zealand.


houhere

Any of various New Zealand plants of the genus Hoheria.


koelreuteria

(botany) Any plant of the genus Koelreuteria.


engordacabra

Dalea bicolor, a leguminous shrub of Mexico.


Yellow Transparent

Yellow Transparent (plural Yellow Transparents)

From a variation of White Transparent based on the colour of the apple. Equivalent to yellow + transparent.

An apple cultivar with a subacidic taste and fine flesh


Sierra Leone peach

Sierra Leone peach (plural Sierra Leone peaches)


poataniwha

Melicope simplex, a shrub of New Zealand.


jockey's cap

The flowering plant Prostanthera striatiflora.


Kenilworth ivy

From its speculated origin, the English town of Kenilworth or the nearby castle of the same name + ivy, due to the plant's leaves' resemblance to those of ivy.

Cymbalaria muralis
Cymbalaria muralis#Translingual


wandering sailor

Any of species Cymbalaria muralis of plants.


Pfitzer's juniper

The plant Juniperus chinensis pfitzeriana.


pond cypress

Most of the pond cypress leaves are twisted so that they stand erect along the upper side of the twigs, creating a featherlike effect. By contrast, the leaves of bald cypress are arranged in a spiral all around the twigs.

2006 June 27, Robert Mohlenbrock, This Land: A Guide to Eastern National Forests, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 26:

In areas of peat soils, bald cypress dominates, and in marl soils, pond cypress dominates. Their growth forms are distinctive--bald cypress limbs extending horizontally and pond cypress extending at a uniform upward angle.

2016 November 3, Thomas E. Lodge, The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem, Fourth Edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 99:

A variety of bald cypress native to blackwater rivers of the Southeastern United States; a deciduous conifer of species Taxodium distichum var. imbricarium (formerly known as Taxodium ascendens).


Oyster Bay pine

Oyster Bay pine (plural Oyster Bay pines)


hedgenettle

hedgenettle (countable and uncountable, plural hedgenettles)

Any of certain plants of the genus Stachys.


Japanese clover

Japanese clover (plural Japanese clovers)

annual lespedeza, common lespedeza, Japanese bush-clover, Japanese lespedeza, striate lespedeza (Kummerowia striata, syn. Lespedeza striata)


greenthorn

Balanites maughamii, a southern African tree.


yellow bedstraw

Synonym of lady's bedstraw (“the plant Galium verum”)


haak-en-steek

(South Africa) The plant Acacia tortilis.


Australian willow

Australian willow (plural Australian willows)

A tree native to Australia with drooping branches reminiscent of a weeping willow, Geijera parviflora


sudden oak death

More recently, sudden oak death, oak decline, beech wilt, sweet chestnut blight and horse chestnut canker have infested Europe’s forests.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 296:

A disease that kills oak and other forest trees, caused by the oomycete plant pathogen Phytophthora ramorum.


oak decline

Quercus robur
Quercus robur#Translingual

Quercus petraea
Quercus petraea#Translingual

A disease of uncertain origin affecting mature pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) and sessile oak (Quercus petraea) trees in Britain.


Drummond's phlox

Named after Scottish botanist Thomas Drummond.


Mediterranean cypress

Mediterranean cypress (plural Mediterranean cypresses)

Cupressus sempervirens
Cupressus sempervirens#Translingual


Italian cypress

Italian cypress (plural Italian cypresses)

Mediterranean cypress
Mediterranean cypress#English


Port Jackson pine

Port Jackson pine (plural Port Jackson pines)


Illawarra mountain pine

Illawarra mountain pine (plural Illawarra mountain pines)


Japanese ivy

Japanese ivy (countable and uncountable, plural Japanese ivies)


hapus mango

hapus mango (plural hapus mangos or hapus mangoes)

hapus mangos (plural)
hapus mangoes (plural)

From an Indian language, compare Gujarati આફૂસ (āphūs).
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scrub turpentine

scrub turpentine (plural scrub turpentines)

An Australian tree, Canarium australianum.


styptic tree

Canarium australianum, the scrub turpentine.


sea plantain

A low, leafy plant, Plantago maritima, that grows near water.


sangdragon

Sangdragons (Pterocarpus indicus) are large, graceful trees with large roots growing from the side of the trunk like flying buttresses and a sap which is blood red […]

1997, Sarah Carpin, Seychelles, page 83:

Pterocarpus indicus
Pterocarpus indicus#Translingual


zitherwood

zitherwood (countable and uncountable, plural zitherwoods)

Any of various plants of the genus Citharexylum.


yellow pea

A yellow-flowered leguminous herb, Lathyrus aphaca, native to the Middle East.


great willowherb

great willowherb (plural great willowherbs)

A wildflower of species Epilobium hirsutum


marsh willowherb

marsh willowherb (plural marsh willowherbs)

A wildflower of species Epilobium palustre, found in various parts of the northern hemisphere.


ghost pipe

Either of two holoparasitic plants:
a ghost plant (Monotropa uniflora).

Orobanche uniflora
Orobanche uniflora#Translingual

a flower of species Orobanche uniflora, of the broomrape family.


Siberian spruce

Siberian spruce (plural Siberian spruces)


Siberian larch

Siberian larch (plural Siberian larches)


common heath

A geometrid moth of species Ematurga atomaria, of Europe and Central Asia.


African custard apple

African custard apple (plural African custard apples)

Annona senegalensis
Annona senegalensis#Translingual

A tree, of species Annona senegalensis, native to tropical Africa, having edible fruits.


waterberry

A number of plants of the genus Syzygium.

Guinea waterberry (Syzygium guineense), a tree native to sub-Saharan Africa.


hog's wort

Round the fish are placed four flat stones, on which the plant hog's wort (Peucedanum leiocarpum, Nutt.), red paint, and bulrushes are burnt as an offering to the salmon.

1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 8, page 254:


anacardium nut

Semecarpus anacardium
Semecarpus anacardium#Translingual

The fruit of the tree Semecarpus anacardium.


night jasmine

night jasmine (countable and uncountable, plural night jasmines)

Nyctanthes arbor-tristis
Nyctanthes arbor-tristis#Translingual

Any plant of species Nyctanthes arbor-tristis.


coral bean

A flowering plant of species Erythrina herbacea


turtle bean

Phaseolus vulgaris
Phaseolus vulgaris#Translingual

A variety of species Phaseolus vulgaris, common in Latin America and the bean it produces.