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cheesewood

cheesewood noun: alstonia scholaris (blackboard tree, scholar tree, milkwood, devil's tree, white cheesewood).

Noun

cheesewood (countable and uncountable, plural cheesewoods)

  1. Alstonia scholaris (blackboard tree, scholar tree, milkwood, devil's tree, white cheesewood).
  2. Melodorum fruticosum (white cheesewood).
  3. Pittosporum species.
  4. Nauclea orientalis (Leichhardt tree, yellow cheesewood, Canary cheesewood).

Forms of cheesewood

pluralcheesewoods

Origin of cheesewood

From cheese + wood.

Questions about cheesewood

What does cheesewood mean?
Cheesewood means alstonia scholaris (blackboard tree, scholar tree, milkwood, devil's tree, white cheesewood).
What part of speech is cheesewood?
Cheesewood is a noun.
What is the plural of cheesewood?
The plural of cheesewood is cheesewoods.

Words near cheesewood in the dictionary

  1. cheesewiches
  2. cheesewire
  3. cheesewires
  4. cheesewoman
  5. cheesewomen
  6. cheesewood
  7. cheesewoods
  8. cheesewright
  9. cheesewrights
  10. cheesey
  11. cheesier

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