fever tree

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Noun

fever tree (plural fever trees)

  1. An acacia tree, Vachellia xanthophloea, native to eastern and southern Africa, with fragrant yellow flowers.
    • 1998, Stuart A. Altmann, “Dietary Diversity”, in Foraging for Survival: Yearling Baboons in Africa, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 76:
      Virtually all the trees in the home range of the baboons are acacias of just two species: the fever tree, Acacia xanthophloea (18.4% of feeding bouts), and, on somewhat higher, drier ground, the umbrella tree, A. tortilis (5.0%).
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