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sweetwood

sweetwood noun: the true laurel (Laurus nobilis).

Noun

sweetwood (countable and uncountable, plural sweetwoods)

  1. The true laurel (Laurus nobilis).
  2. The timber of the Jamaican tree Oreodaphne leucoxylon, or of various related trees.
  3. Ocotea floribunda and Ocotea leucoxylon
  4. Licaria triandra
  5. Nectandra coriacea
  6. Sideroxylon salicifolium

Forms of sweetwood

pluralsweetwoods

Origin of sweetwood

From sweet + wood.

Questions about sweetwood

What does sweetwood mean?
Sweetwood means the true laurel (Laurus nobilis).
What part of speech is sweetwood?
Sweetwood is a noun.
What is the plural of sweetwood?
The plural of sweetwood is sweetwoods.

Words near sweetwood in the dictionary

  1. sweetwater
  2. Sweetwater County
  3. sweetwaters
  4. sweetweed
  5. Sweetwine
  6. sweetwood
  7. sweetwoods
  8. sweetwort
  9. sweetworts
  10. sweety
  11. Sweezy

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