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lancewood

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

Noun

lancewood (countable and uncountable, plural lancewoods)

  1. 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. (Australia) 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 stream1904, Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume 20, page 578
    • Bo sat on the sprung branch of a toppled lancewood.2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 40

Forms of lancewood

plurallancewoods

Origin of lancewood

From lance + wood.

Questions about lancewood

What does lancewood mean?
Lancewood means a tough, elastic and heavy wood obtained from the West Indies and Guiana, formerly much used for carriage shafts (Oxandra lanceolata).
What part of speech is lancewood?
Lancewood is a noun.
What is the plural of lancewood?
The plural of lancewood is lancewoods.

Words near lancewood in the dictionary

  1. lancetfish
  2. lancetfishes
  3. lanceth
  4. lanceting
  5. lancets
  6. lancewood
  7. lancewoods
  8. lancework
  9. lanch
  10. lancha
  11. Lanchan

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