Deciduous shrubby tree of eastern North America having deeply fissured bark and sprays of small fragrant white flowers and sour-tasting leaves

• South American monkey
• Small monkey with a long tail
• Arboreal Amazon monkey
• Capuchin monkey relative
• A marmoset
• Blue-footed petrel of N.Z.
• South American monkey, or two music notes
• S.A. simian
• New World monkey

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n. tree of low-lying coastal areas of southeastern United States having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers [syn: buckwheat tree , Cliftonia monophylla ] deciduous shrubby tree of eastern North America having deeply fissured bark and sprays ...