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fiddlewood

fiddlewood noun: the wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.

fiddlewood: the wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum
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Noun

fiddlewood (countable and uncountable, plural fiddlewoods)

  1. The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.
  2. Any of these trees.

fiddlewood meaning in Tamil

fiddlewood in Tamil

கித்தார்

Forms of fiddlewood

pluralfiddlewoods

Origin of fiddlewood

From fiddle + wood, a corruption of French bois-fidèle (“faithful wood”), so called from its durability.

Questions about fiddlewood

What does fiddlewood mean?
Fiddlewood means the wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.
What is fiddlewood in Tamil?
Fiddlewood in Tamil is கித்தார். See Fiddlewood meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fiddlewood?
Fiddlewood is a noun.
What is the plural of fiddlewood?
The plural of fiddlewood is fiddlewoods.

Words near fiddlewood in the dictionary

  1. fiddlesticks
  2. fiddlestring
  3. fiddlestrings
  4. fiddleth
  5. Fiddletown
  6. fiddlewood
  7. fiddlewoods
  8. fiddley
  9. fiddleys
  10. fiddlier
  11. fiddliest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fiddlewood (page history and authors); fiddlewood (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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