Definitions for Sterculia

Sterculia ster·cu·li·a

Spelling: [stur-kyoo-lee-uh]
IPA: /stɜrˈkyu li ə/

Sterculia is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 942 anagrams from letters in Sterculia (aceilrstu).

Definitions for Sterculia

noun

  1. any of various tropical trees of the genus Sterculia, of which some species are grown as ornamentals and some are the source of commercially valuable wood.

Origin of Sterculia

1765-75; New Latin, equivalent to Latin Stercul(us) a Roman deity supposed to have invented manuring (derivative of stercus manure, excrement) + ia -ia; from the fetid

Examples for Sterculia

It is said to be the product of sterculia urens, a plant of the natural order sterculiaceae.

The principal hill consisted of traprock, and was so naked that only one or two trees of the sterculia heterophylla grew upon it.

The country was well grassed and openly wooded with box, sterculia, leguminous ironbark, and terminalia.

The Callitris pyramidalis and the sterculia heterophylla were among the trees.

Nearly equally conspicuous are large numbers of sterculia campanulata.

The inner bark of sterculia villosa is used for making ropes for timber-dragging purposes.

Most important are the Elaeis guineensis, sterculia acuminata and the wild coffee tree.

Casually found on the Nam Toroon, a sterculia arborea, florib-masculis clavato, infundibul.

I have since ascertained that the tree is called the sterculia foetida.

sterculia, which at the time was particularly valuable to us, was rare.

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