tung tree
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Tweet n. Any of several widely cultivated eastern Asian trees of the genus Vernicia (syn. Aleurites), especially V. fordii and V. montana, whose seeds yield a commercially valuable drying oil. [Mandarin tóng, from Middle Chinese tɦəŋ.] |
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