key-fruit

noun

key-fruit

noun

1

A samara.

From February 23 to April 30 a flock of about one hundred visited the University campus daily, feeding principally upon the samara or key-fruits of the box-elder trees, also the seeds of sugar-maples, and leaf buds.1910, Proceedings, volumes 11-12, Davenport Academy of Sciences, page 308:

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