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nanmu

nanmu noun: wood of the tree Phoebe nanmu (or several other similar) that was once used for boat building, architectural woodworking and wood art in China.

Noun

nanmu

  1. wood of the tree Phoebe nanmu (or several other similar) that was once used for boat building, architectural woodworking and wood art in China

Origin of nanmu

Borrowed from Mandarin 楠木 (nánmù).

Questions about nanmu

What does nanmu mean?
Nanmu means wood of the tree Phoebe nanmu (or several other similar) that was once used for boat building, architectural woodworking and wood art in China.
What part of speech is nanmu?
Nanmu is a noun.

Words near nanmu in the dictionary

  1. Nanle
  2. Nanling
  3. Nanling Mountains
  4. nanlingite
  5. Nanming
  6. nanmu
  7. nanna
  8. nanna nap
  9. nanna naps
  10. nanna wobble
  11. nanna wobbles

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