any of several tropical American trees of the sapodilla family that yield balata
Origin of bully tree
altered from balata treebully tree
bully treeWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural bully trees)
- Any of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceae, such as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops, most of them yielding a substance closely resembling gutta-percha.
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