The Collaborative International Dictionary
Osage orange \O"sage or"ange\ (Bot.) An ornamental tree of the genus Maclura ( Maclura aurantiaca), closely allied to the mulberry ( Morus); also, its fruit. The tree was first found in the country of the Osage Indians, and bears a hard and inedible fruit of an orangelike appearance. See Bois d'arc.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 The tree (taxlink Maclura pomifera species noshow=1), noted for its large, dense, wrinkly, bright green and unpalatable fruit, once a popular hedge tree in the United States. 2 The fruit of this tree. n. 1 The tree (taxlink Maclura pomifera species noshow=1), noted for its large, dense, wrinkly, bright green and unpalatable fruit, once a popular hedge tree in the United States. 2 The fruit of this tree.
WordNet
n. small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and an inedible fruit that resembles an orange; its hard orange-colored wood used for bows by native Americans; frequently planted as boundary hedge [syn: bow wood, mock orange, Maclura pomifera]
Usage examples of "osage orange".
Back East, where they called it Osage orange, bow-wood growing in a park like some floral pet could stand on one trunk about the size and shape of a crab apple, although thorny as a rosebush and bearing a sort of mock orange hard as wood.
A squirrel was scold-barking from an Osage orange tree branch at a big black cat that had braved the wet grass.
A yellow dye is also derived from the root of the Osage Orange (Toxylon pomiferum, Raf.
They stood among flowering catalpa and Osage orange and Potter was looking down at what appeared to be the deep tracks of wagon wheels.