10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COW TREE»
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Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules ...
There grows in South America a tree, which is called by a Spanish name, that
signifies cow-tree. It is found chiefly along the coast between Barbula and
Maracaybo. The tree produces oblong pointed leaves, with a fruit somewhat
fleshy, ...
50, soars rourt'rn s'rsn-r, or s-nnts, £01.. .- PHILADELPHIA. W For "The Friend."
Polo De Vacs—or Cow Tree of the Caracas. win looking through a late volume of
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, containing numerous splendid coloured engravings
...
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Handbook of Nuts: Herbal Reference Library
BROSIMUM UTILE (H.B.K.) Pitt. (MORACEAE) — Cow Tree, Palo de Vaca Syn.:
Brosium galactodendron D. Don in Sweet, Galactodendron utile H.B.K. Uses —
Latex from trunk, considered to be highly nutritive, is used by natives as a milk- ...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
THE COW TREE. (Palo de Vaca.) Our attention has been rivelted to this
stupendous giant of the South American forest by a Descriptive Account, lately
published by Mr. John Murray, F.S.A., F.L.S., whose labours in useful science it
has often ...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
THE COW TREE. (Palo rte Vaca.) Dun. attention has been rivetted to this
stuendoua giant of the South American forest by a Dam-iptive Account, lately
published by Mr.John Murray, F.S.A., F.L.S.,whose labours in useful science it
has often ...
Reuben Percy, John Timbs, 1838
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The Family Magazine, Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge
SCRAPS IN NATURAL HISTORY. THE COW-TREE. Mr. Laet was the first person
who made known m Europe one of the most curious vegetable productions of the
equinoctial regions — a tree which yields a kind of milk entirely analogous to ...
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The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art
THE COW TREE. M. ne Huhrolot was the first to bring the Cow Tree of Caracus
into notice. " We returned," he says in his valuable ' Relation Historique,' v. 2, p.
106, " from Porto Cabella to the valley of Aragua, stopping at the plantation of ...
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the mirror of literature, amusement, and instruction:
Humboldt describes the " Palo de Vaca" or " Cow Tree," as growing on the shores
of the Cordilleras, and found most plentifully between Barbula and the lake of
Maracaybo : — -' On the barreu flank of a rock," says this philosophical traveller, ...
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Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Ihave here the pleasure of giving figures of the Cow Tree ; the general
representation (TAB. 3723) being copied from a very clever sketch taken on the
spot and 'sent to me by Sir ROBERT KER PORTER, H. B. M. Consul Genral at La
Guayra; ...
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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
THE COW-TREE. Air Laet was the first person who made known in Europe one of
the most curious vegetable productions of the equinoctial regions — a tree which
yields a kind of milk entirely analogous to that of a cow, and which, for that ...
William Chambers, Robert Chambers, 1834
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COW TREE»
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cow tree is used in the context of the following news items.
A timely lesson in te reo pronunciation
A cow tree. Never heard of it? No, it's not a shrub preferred by ruminant beasts; it's the name of a Palmerston North suburb that many city ... «Manawatu Standard, Jul 13»
Kids decorate Lazy Cow tree
ANYONE who visited the Lazy Cow in Warwick over the past month and enjoyed their Christmas Tree can thank a group of school children. «Warwick Courier, Jan 12»
Sarum St Paul's pupils decorate Lazy Cow tree
Cakes are made, stockings soon to be hung and mince pies being eaten, and children at Sarum St Paul's School have helped the city get into ... «Salisbury Journal, Dec 11»
The Business of Being Britney
An article in next month's Portfolio magazine outlines the branches in Britney's ever-blossoming cash-cow tree, explaining that while "recent ... «LAist, Jan 08»
