Word.ws English Dictionary

partridge-wood

partridge-wood noun: a hard variegated wood from a tree species of Brazil and the West Indies (Andira inermis), used in cabinet-work.

Noun

partridge-wood (uncountable)

  1. A hard variegated wood from a tree species of Brazil and the West Indies (Andira inermis), used in cabinet-work.
  2. Panga panga (Millettia stuhlmannii)
  3. Unusually dark wood with pockets of white mycelium, found in oak trees damaged by the fungus Stereum frustolosum.

Forms of partridge-wood

alternative formpartridge wood

Questions about partridge-wood

What does partridge-wood mean?
Partridge-wood means a hard variegated wood from a tree species of Brazil and the West Indies (Andira inermis), used in cabinet-work.
What part of speech is partridge-wood?
Partridge-wood is a noun.

Words near partridge-wood in the dictionary

  1. Partridge Green
  2. partridge pea
  3. partridge peas
  4. partridge plum
  5. partridge plums
  6. partridge-wood
  7. Partridgean
  8. partridgeberries
  9. partridgeberry
  10. partridgelike
  11. partridges

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: partridge-wood (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “partridge-wood.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/partridge-wood. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.