Nouns starting with B

• beech tree — Noun – English ～ any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions
• bullock's heart tree — Noun – English ～ small tropical American tree bearing a bristly heart-shaped acid tropical fruit
• buckwheat tree — Noun – English ～ tree of low-lying coastal areas of southeastern United States having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers
• bully tree — Noun – English ～ a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
• button tree — Noun – English ～ evergreen tree or shrub with fruit resembling buttons and yielding heavy hard compact wood
• butternut tree — Noun – English ～ North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye
• broom tree — Noun – English ～ prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe
• bunya bunya tree — Noun – English ～ Australian conifer bearing two-inch seeds tasting like roasted chestnuts; among the aborigines the tree is hereditary property protected by law
• bottle tree — Noun – English ～ an Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton
• Brazilian pepper tree — Noun – English ～ small Brazilian evergreen resinous tree or shrub having dark green leaflets and white flowers followed by bright red fruit; used as a street tree and lawn specimen
• breadfruit tree — Noun – English ～ native to Pacific islands and having edible fruit with a texture like bread
• brazil-nut tree — Noun – English ～ tall South American tree bearing brazil nuts
• Brazilian potato tree — Noun – English ～ South American shrub or small tree widely cultivated in the tropics; not a true potato
• bird's foot trefoil — Noun – English ～ Old World herb related to fenugreek
• bird's foot trefoil — Noun – English ～ European forage plant having claw-shaped pods introduced in America
• bean trefoil — Noun – English ～ shrub with trifoliate leaves and yellow flowers followed by backward curving seed pods; leaves foetid when crushed
• Baron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding — Noun – English ～ British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970)
• Bougainville Trench — Noun – English ～ a depression in the floor of the Pacific Ocean between New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
• Bermuda Triangle — Noun – English ～ an area in the western Atlantic Ocean where many ships and planes are supposed to have been mysteriously lost
• Bidens trichosperma — Noun – English ～ North American bur marigold with large flowers

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