Nouns starting with B

• bead tree — Noun – English ～ small tree of West Indies and northeastern Venezuela having large oblong pointed leaflets and panicles of purple flowers; seeds are black or scarlet with black spots
• bay tree — Noun – English ～ small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors
• bay-rum tree — Noun – English ～ West Indian tree; source of bay rum
• bottle-tree — Noun – English ～ an Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton
• bonduc tree — Noun – English ～ tropical tree with large prickly pods of seeds that resemble beans and are used for jewelry and rosaries
• boojum tree — Noun – English ～ candlewood of Mexico and southwestern California having tall columnar stems and bearing honey-scented creamy yellow flowers
• birch tree — Noun – English ～ any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark
• bitterwood tree — Noun – English ～ any of various trees or shrubs of the family Simaroubaceae having wood and bark with a bitter taste
• bird cherry tree — Noun – English ～ any of several small-fruited cherry trees frequented or fed on by birds
• bitter orange tree — Noun – English ～ any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock
• black cherry tree — Noun – English ～ large North American wild cherry with round black sour edible fruit
• blackwood tree — Noun – English ～ any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood
• black tree fern — Noun – English ～ a showy tree fern of New Zealand and Australia having a crown of pinnated fronds with whitish undersides
• bloodwood tree — Noun – English ～ deciduous South African tree having large odd-pinnate leaves and profuse fragrant orange-yellow flowers; yields a red juice and heavy strong durable wood
• bloodwood tree — Noun – English ～ spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye
• big-tree plum — Noun – English ～ small tree of southwestern United States having purplish-red fruit sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its large leaves
• big tree — Noun – English ～ extremely lofty evergreen of southern end of western foothills of Sierra Nevada in California; largest living organism
• bo tree — Noun – English ～ fig tree of India noted for great size and longevity; lacks the prop roots of the banyan; regarded as sacred by Buddhists
• bendy tree — Noun – English ～ pantropical tree of usually seacoasts sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its rounded heart-shaped leaves and showy yellow and purple flowers; yields valuable pink to dark red close-grained wood and oil from its seeds
• bean tree — Noun – English ～ any of several trees having seedpods as fruits

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