elephant tree

elephant tree
noun
small tree or shrub of the southwestern United States having a spicy odor and odd-pinnate leaves and small clusters of white flowers
• Hypernyms: ↑incense tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Bursera, ↑genus Bursera

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noun
: a spicy-odored small tree or shrub (Bursera microphylla) of the southwestern United States having a light-gray outer bark, slender zigzag twigs, and white flowers in mostly 3-flowered clusters

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