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tree shrew

(Encyclopedia) tree shrew, small, arboreal mammal of the family Tupaiidae, found in S Asia. The 17 known species of tree shrews are classified as the order Tupaioidea or Scandentia. Tree shrews…

Pará rubber tree

(Encyclopedia) Pará rubber treePará rubber treepäräˈ [key], large tree (Hevea brasiliensis) of the family Euphorbiaceae (spurge family), native to tropical South America and the source of the…

tree toad

(Encyclopedia) tree toad: see tree frog.

Toffee Trees and Turkish Delight

Food in C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia compiled by Holly Hartman And really it was a wonderful tea. There was a nice brown egg, lightly boiled, for each of them, and then sardines on toast,…

Aesop's Fables: The Trees and the Axe

by Aesop The Bull and the CalfThe AstronomerThe Trees and the Axe A Woodman went into the forest and begged of the Trees the favour of a handle for his Axe. The principal Trees at once…

Aesop's Fables: The Walnut-Tree

by Aesop The Lion and the BoarThe Man and the LionThe Walnut-Tree A Walnut-tree, which grew by the roadside, bore every year a plentiful crop of nuts. Every one who passed by pelted its…

Brewer's: Cherry Trees and the Cuckoo

The cherry tree is strangely mixed up with the cuckoo in many cuckoo stories, because of the tradition that the cuckoo must eat three good meals of cherries before he is allowed to cease…

Holt, Helen Maud

(Encyclopedia) Holt, Helen Maud: see Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm.