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bot′tle tree′, 
  1. Plant Biologyany of several trees of the genus Brachychiton, native to Australia, characterized by a bottle-shaped swelling of the trunk, as B. rupestris (narrow-leaved bottle tree)or B. australis (broad-leaved bottle tree). 
  • 1840–50

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
bottle tree
  1. any of several Australian sterculiaceous trees of the genus Sterculia (or Brachychiton) that have a bottle-shaped swollen trunk
  2. another name for baobab
'bottle tree' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
broad-leaved bottle tree. - kurrajong - narrow-leaved bottle tree

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