cow tree

noun

1. a South American moraceous tree, Brosimum galactodendron, producing latex used as a substitute for milk

Example Sentences

The symbolic meaning behind the transformations of the characters — satellite becomes girl, boy becomes cow, tree becomes a talking roll of toilet paper — might go over their heads.

From Washington Post

Higson met with two species of cow tree, which he states to be abundant in the deep and humid woods of the provinces of Choc� and Popay�n.

From Project Gutenberg

This he regards as identical with the cow tree of Caracas, of which Humboldt has given so graphic a description.

From Project Gutenberg

As originally printed: "as identical with the cow tree of Caraccas".

From Project Gutenberg

Cow In Eastern Guatemala, Dr. Samuel J. Record discovered a tree never before known to science, named it the cow tree.

From Time Magazine Archive