tung-oil tree

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   Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil

   Synonymstung treetungAleurites fordii

   Broaderangiospermous tree

   Part ofAleurites

Questions about tung-oil tree

What does tung-oil tree mean?

tung-oil tree means "Chinese tree bearing seeds that yield tung oil".

What is another word for tung-oil tree?

Close synonyms include tung tree, tung, Aleurites fordii. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tung-oil tree a common word?

tung-oil tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.