Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bois d'arc

Bois d'arc ({not transcribed})

[French, bow wood. So called because used for bows by the Western Indians.]

(Botany) The Osage orange (Maclura aurantiaca).
The bois d'arc seems to be the characteristic growth of the black prairies. — U. S. Census (1880)