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possumwood

possumwood noun: diospyros virginiana (American persimmon) native to warm-temperate North America.

Noun

possumwood (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural, uncommon) Diospyros virginiana (American persimmon) native to warm-temperate North America.
  2. (no plural, uncommon) Hura crepitans (sandbox tree), native to the tropical Americas;
  3. (no plural, uncommon) Quintinia sieberi (rough possumwood), a rainforest tree native to eastern Australia.

Origin of possumwood

From possum + wood.

Words formed from possumwood

  • grey possumwood
  • smooth possumwood

Questions about possumwood

What does possumwood mean?
Possumwood means diospyros virginiana (American persimmon) native to warm-temperate North America.
What part of speech is possumwood?
Possumwood is a noun.

Words near possumwood in the dictionary

  1. possumed
  2. possumhaw
  3. possuming
  4. possumlike
  5. possums
  6. possumwood
  7. post
  8. post and lintel
  9. post and pair
  10. post baccalaureate
  11. post bag

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Adapted from Wiktionary: possumwood (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.

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