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Noun: osage orange
  1. 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-coloured wood used for bows by Native Americans; frequently planted as boundary hedge
    "Farmers planted osage orange as living fences";
    - bow wood, mock orange, Maclura pomifera
Noun: Osage  ow'seyj or 'ow,seyj
  1. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Missouri in the valleys of the Missouri and Osage rivers; oil was found on Osage lands early in the 20th century
     
  2. The Dhegiha dialect spoken by the Osage
     
  3. A river in Missouri that is a tributary of the Missouri River
    - Osage River

Derived forms: Osages

Type of: angiospermous yellowwood, Dhegiha, river

Part of: Missouri, MO, Mo., Show Me State [informal]

Encyclopedia: Osage orange

Osage, Oklahoma