Lancewood

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A tough, elastic and heavy wood obtained from the West Indies and Guiana, formerly much used for carriage shafts (Oxandra lanceolata). countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    source of most of the lancewood of commerce wordnet
  3. 3
    New Zealand trees in the genus Pseudopanax. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools wordnet
  5. 5
    Any of various Australian trees having hard timber, especially Acacia shirleyi of Queensland and the Northern Territory; also a woodland made of such trees. Australia, countable, uncountable

    "Besides these two trees, which are the most general form of vegetation met with, may be found the briglow, bugwood, lapunya, lancewood, cork, box, and bloodwood, the last so named from its light red sap, which oozes in a thick stream"

Etymology

From lance + wood.

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