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Webster 1913 Edition


Osage orange

O′sage or′ange

.
(Bot.)
An ornamental tree of the genus
Maclura
(
Maclura aurantiaca
), closely allied to the mulberry (
Morus
); also, its fruit. The tree was first found in the country of the Osage Indians, and bears a hard and inedible fruit of an orangelike appearance. See
Bois d’arc
.