Word Finder - acacia

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A shrub or tree of the tribe Acacieae.

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The thickened or dried juice of several species in Acacieae, in particular Vachellia nilotica (syn. Acacia nilotica), the Egyptian acacia.

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A false acacia; robinia tree, Robinia pseudoacacia.

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Gum arabic; gum acacia.

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Any of several related trees, such as the locust tree.

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A light to moderate greenish yellow with a hint of red.

The acacia abounded on the borders of the valley, but the groves were gradually cut down for the use of the carpenter and the charcoal-burner.

Among the trees the acacia and the dum-palm are common.

Two species of acacia are remarkable for the delicate and violet-like perfume of their wood - myall and yarran.

It was lined within and without with gold, and through four golden rings were placed staves of acacia wood, by means of which it was carried.

The sunt tree (Acacia nhlolica) grows everywhere, as well as the tamarisk and the sycamore.

For boatbuilding papyrus stems and acacia wood were employed, and for the best work cedar-wood was imported from Lebanon.

The dom palm, tamarisk, acacia and wild senna are also found.

The acacia tree is common, and from it gum-arabic of good quality is obtained.

A large part of the country is covered with grass or shrub, chiefly acacia.

World furniture collection which includes acacia, fruitwood and birch furniture.

It is medicinally superior to gum acacia, as it does not undergo acetous fermentation.

Many low trees covered the land, mostly small thorny acacia and some cineraria, all trunk and no branches.

Indeed he could, and not one but two, surprisingly well concealed in a small acacia and viewable from just a few meters.

Pale catechu has properties and uses similar to those of black catechu derived from Acacia catechu Willd., fam.

A juvenile Gabar goshawk came hurtling past one of the vehicles to perch on top of an acacia.

We then move south to the more open, acacia savanna, with more grazing mammals and a greater chance of seeing predators.

There is extensive acacia woodland savanna in the center stretching east from Ikoma and some gallery forest along the rivers.

This consists largely of fairly open areas with stands of gingerbread plum and other small trees, acacia scrub and some Rhun palms.

We had excellent views of a Desert Wheatear perched on a small acacia bush and Julia found a male stonechat perched on stubble.

Species found in forest areas include tamarind, acacia, Baobab and African rosewood.

The principal timber trees in the forests are - teak; blackwood of two varieties (Dalbergia Sisu andDalbergia latifolia), Dalbergia ujainensis, Pterocarpus Marsupium, Terminalia glabra, Acacia arabica, Acacia Catechu, Nauclea cordifolia, Nauclea parvifolia, Bidelia spinosa, Hardwickia binata, Juga xylocarpa, Populus euphratica, and Tamarindus indica.

We had excellent views of a Desert Wheatear perched on a small acacia bush and Julia found a male Stonechat perched on stubble.

The common Acacia or Locust Tree (R. pseudoacacia) is of quick growth, hardy, and thrives almost anywhere.

Clammy Locust (Robinia Viscosa) - Smaller than the ordinary False Acacia, but is elegant in foliage and beautiful in flower.

The flowers resemble those of Decaisnes variety of the common Acacia, being of a pale pink color, but the clusters are shorter and denser.

Kelseys False Acacia (Robinia Kelseyi) - This is a new kind found by Mr Kelsey, of Boston, a very graceful shrub, pretty in flower and having its seed-pods covered with red bristles.

For some time this plant will doubtless be propagated by grafting on the common Acacia, but the sooner we get it from seed the better.

It grows on many trees, both evergreen and summer-leafing-orchard trees, Limes, Poplars, Elms, Willows, Hornbeam, Beech, Acacia, Horse-chestnut, Firs-rarely on the Oak in Britain.

But no Acacia that I have ever seen has such splendid blossoms.

Tassel Tree (Acacia) - Beautiful shrubs and trees, thriving in warmer countries, but a few grown out of doors do well in parts of England.

Chardonnays from Acacia Vineyards are no exception, remaining consistently good from vintage to vintage.

Try one of these wines from Acacia Vineyards.

Try the Acacia Chardonnay Carneros Sangiacomo Vineyard, 2008 or the Acacia Chardonnay Russian River Valley 2009.

Acacia Woodworks offers several wine presentation boxes, some of which include space for glasses.

The products contain flax, acacia, oat bran and chia seeds to deliver a balance of soluble and insoluble fiber.

This natural product is made from the hardened sap of two species of the acacia tree.

The principal trees are the alder, aloe, palm, poplar, acacia, willow and eucalyptus.

The forest vegetation, largely confined to the "Isle of Isles" and the southern uplands, includes the Adansonia (baobab), which in the Fazogli district attains gigantic proportions, the tamarind, of which bread is made, the deleb palm, several valuable gum trees (whence the term Sennari often applied in Egypt to gumarabic), some dyewoods, ebony, ironwood and many varieties of acacia.

Of other useful woods found in the plains may be named the babool, Acacia; toon, Cedrela; and sissoo, Dalbergia.

Thus the protoand per-salts of iron, as well as the protoand per-salts of tin, including also a large variety of tannin, sumac, divi-divi, chestnut, valonia, the acacias (Areca Catechu and Acacia Catechu from India), from which are obtained cutch and gambier, &c., are no longer used solely as mordants or tinctorial matters, but mainly to serve the object of converting the silk into a greatly-expanded fibre, consisting of a conglomeration of more or less of these substances."

Other trees, found chiefly on the plateaus, are the baobab, the shea-butter tree, the locust tree, gambier, palms, including the date and dum palm (Hyphaene), the tamarind, and, in the arid regions, the acacia and mimosa.

There are about 450 species of acacia widely scattered over the warmer regions of the globe.

True gum-arabic is the product of Acacia Senegal, abundant in both east and west tropical Africa.

The bark of Acacia arabica, under the name of babul or babool, is used in Scinde for tanning.

Some species afford valuable timber; such are Acacia melanoxylon, black wood of Australia, which attains a great size; its wood is used for furniture, and takes a high polish; and Acacia homalophylla (also Australian), myall wood, which yields a fragrant timber, used for ornamental purposes.

Acacia seyal is supposed to be the shittah tree of the Bible, which supplied shittim-wood.

Acacia heterophylla, from Mauritius and Bourbon, and Acacia koa from the Sandwich Islands are also good timber trees.

The commonest species of trees are such as grow in central Europe, namely, ash, fir, pine, beech, acacia, maple, birch, box, chestnut, laurel, holm-oak, poplar, elm, lime, yew, elder, willow, oak.

Gumand resin-yielding trees and plants (such as the acacia) are numerous.

This altar was in the centre of the court of the tabernacle, of acacia wood, 3 cubits high and 5 square.