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Osage orange definition

☆ Osage· orange (ō′sāj′)

  1. a small thorny tree (Maclura pomifera) of the mulberry family, with hard, yellow wood, native to the central U.S. and often used for hedges
  2. its greenish-yellow, orange-shaped, inedible fruit

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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