camphor tree


noun
  1. a tree, Cinnamomum camphora, of the laurel family, grown in eastern Asia and yielding camphor.

Origin of camphor tree

1
First recorded in 1600–10

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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.

  • The camphor tree overhead was thrown out darkly against the stars, like its own shadow.

    The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil Fenollosa
  • The camphor-tree—the Laurus camphora—is another very fine tree, with red and black berries.

    In the Eastern Seas | W.H.G. Kingston
  • Away 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 Keith
  • Even the camphor-tree seems to quake with the clamor of smi!

    Shadowings | Lafcadio Hearn

British Dictionary definitions for camphor tree

camphor tree

noun
  1. a lauraceous evergreen E Asian tree, Cinnamomum camphora, whose aromatic wood yields camphor

  2. any similar tree, such as the dipterocarpaceous tree Dryobalanops aromatica of Borneo

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