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/trˈævələrz tri/ Listen

noun

Traveler n.

One who travels; one who has traveled much.

A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.

(Mach.) A traveling crane. See under Crane.

(Spinning) The metal loop which travels around the ring surrounding the bobbin, in a ring spinner.

(Naut.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon.

Traveler's joy (Bot.), the Clematis vitalba, a climbing plant with white flowers.

Traveler's tree. (Bot.) See Ravenala.

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Etymology of 'Traveler's tree'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Traveler's tree" Quotes from Famous Books

... MADAGASCARIENSIS.—This plant is called the Traveler's tree, probably on account of the water which is stored up in the large cup-like sheaths of the leaf-stalks, and which is sought for by travelers to allay their thirst. The broad leaves are used in Madagascar as thatch to cover their houses. The seeds are edible, ...

— Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture • William Saunders