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flavorwood

flavorwood noun: wood that is intended impart a particular flavor to food when used for cooking.

Noun

flavorwood (uncountable)

  1. Wood that is intended impart a particular flavor to food when used for cooking.
    • The 63-page booklet gives ideas on special forest products from speciality wood products such as wooden bowls, fencing, curios, novelties and rustic furniture to other products as varied as flavorwood chips for barbecuing […]1964, Oregon Recreation Views, number 12, page 1965
    • Apart from charcoal, a number of small entrepreneurs have tried entering the cooking wood (also called smokewood or flavorwood) business in the past few years.1993, Margaret G. Thomas, Income Opportunities in Special Forest Products, page 45

Forms of flavorwood

alternative UKflavourwood

Origin of flavorwood

From flavor + wood.

Questions about flavorwood

What does flavorwood mean?
Flavorwood means wood that is intended impart a particular flavor to food when used for cooking.
What part of speech is flavorwood?
Flavorwood is a noun.

Words near flavorwood in the dictionary

  1. flavorsomeness
  2. flavortext
  3. flavortexts
  4. flavorubredoxin
  5. flavorwise
  6. flavorwood
  7. flavory
  8. flavosemiquinone
  9. flavosemiquinones
  10. flavoskyrin
  11. flavour

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