Osage orange

English

Alternative forms

• osage orange, osage-orange

Noun

Osage orange (plural Osage oranges)

1. The tree Maclura pomifera, noted for its large, dense, wrinkly, bright green and unpalatable fruit, once a popular hedge tree in the United States.
2. The fruit of this tree.

Synonyms

• (Maclura pomifera tree): bodark, bois d'arc, hedge tree
• (fruit): hedgeapple

Translations

tree

• Cheyenne: heóvekâhamaxe
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 桑橙 (sāngchéng)

• Hungarian: narancseperfa (hu)

References

• “Osage orange”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.