| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| boojum tree |
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| SYLLABICATION: | boo·jum tree |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b  j m |
| NOUN: | A deciduous tree (Idria columnaris) native to Baja California and having a thick tapering columnar trunk, slender spiny branches, and yellow flowers. | | ETYMOLOGY: | After the boojum, an imaginary character in the poem The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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