camphor tree
a tree, Cinnamomum camphora, of the laurel family, grown in eastern Asia and yielding camphor.
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How to use camphor tree in a sentence
The camphor tree grows very well here, but I do not know if the gum has ever been collected.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil | Maria GrahamThe camphor tree overhead was thrown out darkly against the stars, like its own shadow.
The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil FenollosaThe camphor-tree—the Laurus camphora—is another very fine tree, with red and black berries.
In the Eastern Seas | W.H.G. KingstonAway up in the boughs of a camphor tree a little tailor-bird was twittering.
The Black-Bearded Barbarian (George Leslie Mackay) | Mary Esther Miller MacGregor, AKA Marion KeithEven the camphor-tree seems to quake with the clamor of smi!
Shadowings | Lafcadio Hearn
British Dictionary definitions for camphor tree
a lauraceous evergreen E Asian tree, Cinnamomum camphora, whose aromatic wood yields camphor
any similar tree, such as the dipterocarpaceous tree Dryobalanops aromatica of Borneo
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