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umbrella tree en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. An umbrella magnolia (Magnolia tripetala).
  2. An African corkwood (Musanga cecropioides).
  3. An Australian rainforest tree (Polyscias murrayi).
  4. An octopus tree (Schefflera actinophylla).
  5. An Indian almond (Terminalia catappa).
  6. An umbrella thorn (Vachellia tortilis).
    • Virtually all the trees in the home range of the baboons are acacias of just two species: the fever tree, Acacia xanthophloea (18.4% of feeding bouts), and, on somewhat higher, drier ground, the umbrella tree, A. tortilis (5.0%). 1998, Stuart A. Altmann, “Dietary Diversity”, in Foraging for Survival: Yearling Baboons in Africa, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 76:

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Translations (6)

ja パラソリエ (Musanga cecropioides) · fr parasolier (Musanga cecropioides) · kg nsenga (Musanga cecropioides) · de Regenschirmbaum (Musanga cecropioides) · de Schirmbaum (Musanga cecropioides) · dua bose̱nge̱ (Musanga cecropioides)