English Explanatory Dictionary

tourist tree

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The gumbo limbo, Bursera simaruba.

Word forms

tourist tree tourist trees

Etymology

From the fancied resemblance of the peeling, papery red bark to the sunburned skin of tropical tourists.

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