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palmwood

palmwood noun: the wood of the coconut palm.

Noun

palmwood (uncountable)

  1. The wood of the coconut palm.
    • As in his living room, a 1910s wooden pillar by Constantin Brancusi ($19 million to $25 million) will be placed not far from a 1910s armchair by Eileen Gray carved with dragons ($2.5 million to $3.8 million), two 1920s red-lacquered palmwood benches by Gustave Miklos ($2.5 million to $3.8 million)...2009 February 20, Eve M. Kahn, “Flickery Images of Black Life Back Then”, in New York Times

Origin of palmwood

From palm + wood.

Questions about palmwood

What does palmwood mean?
Palmwood means the wood of the coconut palm.
What part of speech is palmwood?
Palmwood is a noun.

Words near palmwood in the dictionary

  1. palmus
  2. Palmvale
  3. palmward
  4. palmwards
  5. palmwise
  6. palmwood
  7. Palmwoods
  8. palmworm
  9. palmworms
  10. palmy
  11. palmyra

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