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lancewood

noun

Etymology

From lance + wood.

  1. derived from *h₁weydʰh₁-✻
  2. inherited from *widuz✻
  3. inherited from *widu✻
  4. inherited from wudu
  5. inherited from wode
  6. compounded as lancewood — “lance + wood”

Definitions

  1. A tough, elastic and heavy wood obtained from the West Indies and Guiana, formerly much…

    A tough, elastic and heavy wood obtained from the West Indies and Guiana, formerly much used for carriage shafts (Oxandra lanceolata).

  2. New Zealand trees in the genus Pseudopanax.

  3. Any of various Australian trees having hard timber, especially Acacia shirleyi of…

    Any of various Australian trees having hard timber, especially Acacia shirleyi of Queensland and the Northern Territory; also a woodland made of such trees.

    • 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
    • Bo sat on the sprung branch of a toppled lancewood.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA