fever tree
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9.0
- noun
- US
:
árbol de la fiebre
- The local healer said the fever tree bark could help reduce high temperatures during illness.
Examples
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As we got halfway down the road, we saw a fever tree had fallen over and blocked the road, so while Mark and Skigh were looking for a new road around, Mussa jumped up on the tree and started hacking away at it with the panga. We spent 1 hour clearing the tree branch by branch.
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PHOTO (COLOR): A troop of vervet monkeys lives in a grove of fever trees where the baboons often stop for a midday break.
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"Unsustainable harvest practices appeared to threaten the fever tree.
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For the afternoon activity, the plan was to drive down Middle Road and right down San-Pad to the flood plain and go for a walk in the fever tree forest, which was really cool and nice.
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Back at the iHub, only the yellow-barked fever trees that reach the fourth floor window interrupt the Americana.
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Although the original discovery of the fever tree is lost to history, the story most often repeated was popularized by French geographer Charles Marie de la Condamine.
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In the savannah, the fever tree is often seen as a sign of healthy land, free from disease.
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She found shade under the fever tree, a plant known for its medicinal properties in treating fever.
Synonyms
A tree from Africa called the fever tree with yellow-green bark that grows near water
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun–noun compound is directly interpretable as a tree associated with fever, so a B1 learner who knows 'fever' and 'tree' will readily infer it refers to a tree related to fevers (e.g., used medicinally or indicating fever presence/absence). This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows straightforward English compounding, making the meaning transparently derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Fever tree got its name because people used the tree's bark or leaves to make medicine for 'fever'. So the words fever and tree came to mean a tree linked to treating fevers.