Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Colubrina   Listen
Colubrina

noun
1.
Mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits.  Synonym: genus Colubrina.



Related search:



WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Colubrina" Quotes from Famous Books



... proverb, 'My son, the world was not made in a day—but in seven. Return on Sunday.' On the Sunday following I did return to him. Instead of having watered his cabbage with arsenic, he had watered it this time with a solution of salts, having their basis in strychnine, strychnos colubrina, as the learned term it. Now, the cabbage had not the slightest appearance of disease in the world, and the rabbit had not the smallest distrust; yet, five minutes afterwards, the rabbit was dead. The fowl pecked at the rabbit, and the next day ...
— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere



Words linked to "Colubrina" :   family Rhamnaceae, magnoliopsid genus, nakedwood, dicot genus, Rhamnaceae, buckthorn family



Copyright © 2024 e-Free Translation.com