Ti·ti n.
1. A tree of the southern United States (Cliftonia monophylla) having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers succeeded by one-seeded drupes; -- called also black titi, buckwheat tree, and ironwood.
2. Any related tree of the genus Cyrilla, often disting. as white titi.
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white titi
n : shrub or small tree of southeastern United States to West
Indies and Brazil; grown for the slender racemes of white
flowers and orange-crimson foliage [syn: cyrilla, leatherwood,
Cyrilla racemiflora]