The Collaborative International Dictionary
Broadleaf \Broad"leaf`\, n. (Bot.) A tree ( Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The tree that bears the almond, ''Prunus dulcis''. 2 The (vern Indian almond pedia=1), (taxlink Terminalia catappa species noshow=1)
WordNet
n. any of several small bushy trees having pink or white blossoms and usually bearing nuts
Usage examples of "almond tree".
Spenser alludes to it in the Fairy Queen: 'Like to an Almond tree ymounted hye, On top of greene Selinis all alone, With blossoms brave bedecked daintly.
They hung it to an almond tree in the square by its ankles so that everyone could see it, and when it began to rot they burned it in a bonfire, for they could not determine whether its bastard nature was that of an animal to be thrown into the river or a human being to be buried.
I was an almond tree covered with flowers from the roots to the highest branches.
So honk the horn almost continuously, shift up and shift down, swerve, leap, squeal, slide, accelerateand all the time Albert Owen was hollering back over his shoulder at me, pointing out bah-nah-nah tree, almond tree, sugar cane, sar.
It settled on the pink flowers of an almond tree, closing its fragile, pale gold wings.
The soldier helped the divine totter a few steps to collapse in the narrow shade of the wall by the almond tree.
She pined away thinking of her snow-covered northern home, until one February morning she awoke and looked from her window to see the white blossoms of the almond tree covering our whole land.
The sun was already high enough to be felt so they sought the shade of an almond tree to consider the problem.
And there, below the almost bare branches of the almond tree that grew in the next yard, he saw it, thrown against a dusty leaning fence made of wood and tin and corrugated iron.
On the inside wall beneath him, Roland could see the branches of the almond tree slowly begin to writhe The leaves blistered and fell.
Her gaze fell on an old woman huddled in the shade of an almond tree, wearing thick cast-off garments that might have been comfortable during the coolest winter days.
An almond tree was already scattering pink petals on the sleekly shaven lawn.
Nerves generally branch like an almond tree's branches, while the blood vessels branch like a birch tree.