“Rhyme-A-Tree,” Friend, July 1978, 26
Rhyme-A-Tree
Match the tree names at right with the proper descriptions, using as clues the words in parentheses that rhyme with names of trees.
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1. Light-colored hardwood used for making furniture (staple). |
a. pine | |
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2. Tropical fruit tree bearing oblong fruit (late). |
b. birch | |
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3. Drooping branches used in basket weaving (sleeping pillow). |
c. gum | |
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4. Grey-barked, hardwood nut tree (leech). |
d. fir | |
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5. Resinous, coned, and needled tree (fine). |
e. spruce | |
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6. Hardwood sometimes made into punishing sticks (chicory). |
f. teak | |
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7. California redwood pine (daboia). |
g. banyan | |
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8. Timber from East Indian tree used for shipbuilding (beak). |
h. beech | |
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9. Indians made canoes from its bark (lurch). |
i. maple | |
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10. Has edible fuzzy-skinned fruit (teach). |
j. ming | |
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11. Softwood evergreen with dense foliage (juice). |
k. hickory | |
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12. East Indian tree belonging to the mulberry family (canyon). |
l. date | |
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13. Scrubby black-barked American oak (slack pack). |
m. blackjack | |
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14. The bonsai or dwarfed evergreen (ring). |
n. peach | |
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15. Flat-leaf northern pine (spur). |
o. weeping willow | |
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16. The eucalyptus tree of Australia (sum). |
p. sequoia |