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Osage orange   /oʊsˈeɪdʒ ˈɔrəndʒ/   Listen
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Osage orange  n.  (Bot.) An ornamental tree of the genus Maclura (Maclura aurantiaca), closely allied to the mulberry (Morus); also, its fruit. The tree was first found in the country of the Osage Indians, and bears a hard and inedible fruit of an orangelike appearance. See Bois d'arc.






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"Osage orange" Quotes from Famous Books



... there's a privet hedge, clipped low enough for your pink garden to be seen over it; and separating you from the Clarks' is a row of tall, thick hydrangea bushes that are beauties as long as there are any leaves on them; and at the back there is osage orange to shut out that old dump; and on the other side is a row ...
— Ethel Morton's Enterprise • Mabell S.C. Smith



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