tourist tree

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English[edit]

Tourist tree bark

Etymology[edit]

From the fancied resemblance of the peeling, papery red bark to the sunburned skin of tropical tourists.

Noun[edit]

tourist tree (plural tourist trees)

  1. The gumbo limbo, Bursera simaruba
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