NOUN
- a small to medium-sized tree growing in brackish water especially along the shores of the southwestern Pacific
- shrub to moderately large tree that grows in brackish water along the seacoasts of western Africa and tropical America; locally important as a source of tannin
How To Use white mangrove In A Sentence
- Black, red and white mangroves and buttonwoods cover much of the low coastal areas of the South Florida shoreline.
- Casuarina equisetifolia (she-oak) Avicennia officinalis (white mangrove). Tropic Days
- The zone where white mangrove and buttonwood trees grow is almost never flooded by tidal waters.
- Finally, as we walk past the White Mangrove stands we reach the Buttonwood (Conocarpus erectus).