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cherrywood

cherrywood noun: a hardwood obtained from the cherry tree, valued for use in furniture and other woodworking applications.

Noun

cherrywood (uncountable)

  1. A hardwood obtained from the cherry tree, valued for use in furniture and other woodworking applications.
    • He was smoking a cherry-wood pipe, and looked on the whole as if he had borrowed his outfit from the wardrobe of a third-rate dramatic company.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 96

Forms of cherrywood

alternative formcherry wood

Origin of cherrywood

From cherry + wood.

Questions about cherrywood

What does cherrywood mean?
Cherrywood means a hardwood obtained from the cherry tree, valued for use in furniture and other woodworking applications.
What part of speech is cherrywood?
Cherrywood is a noun.

Words near cherrywood in the dictionary

  1. cherrytinis
  2. cherrytop
  3. cherrytops
  4. Cherryvale
  5. Cherryville
  6. cherrywood
  7. chers
  8. chersonese
  9. chersoneses
  10. chersonesi
  11. chersonesus

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