"Osage orange" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Osage oranges [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} Osage orange (plural Osage oranges)
  1. The tree Maclura pomifera, noted for its large, dense, wrinkly, bright green and unpalatable fruit, once a popular hedge tree in the United States. Categories (lifeform): Fruits, Mulberry family plants Synonyms: osage orange, osage-orange Synonyms (Maclura pomifera tree): bodark, bois d'arc, hedge tree
    Sense id: en-Osage_orange-en-noun-0XRVyzx1 Disambiguation of Fruits: 78 22 Disambiguation of Mulberry family plants: 84 16 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 99 1 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 99 1 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 99 1 Disambiguation of 'Maclura pomifera tree': 90 10
  2. The fruit of this tree. Translations (tree): heóvekâhamaxe (Cheyenne), narancseperfa (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-Osage_orange-en-noun-XdpJAk1Z Disambiguation of 'tree': 38 62
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (fruit): hedgeapple
Disambiguation of 'fruit': 45 55

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