butea : Idioms & Phrases

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butea frondosa

  • noun East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye
    dhak; palas; Butea frondosa; dak.
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butea gum

  • noun dried juice of the dhak tree; used as an astringent
    butea kino; Bengal kino; butea gum.
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butea kino

  • noun dried juice of the dhak tree; used as an astringent
    butea kino; Bengal kino; butea gum.
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butea monosperma

  • noun East Indian tree bearing a profusion of intense vermilion velvet-textured blooms and yielding a yellow dye
    dhak; palas; Butea frondosa; dak.
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genus butea

  • noun genus of East Indian trees or shrubs: dhak
    Butea.
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Gum butea

  • noun dried juice of the dhak tree; used as an astringent
    butea kino; Bengal kino; butea gum.
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  • a gum yielded by the Indian plants Butea frondosa and B. superba, and used locally in tanning and in precipitating indigo.
Webster 1913