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tallow wood

tallow wood is the alternative spelling of tallowwood.

Meaning of tallowwood

Noun

tallowwood (usually uncountable, plural tallowwoods)

  1. (usually) An Australian eucalyptus, Eucalyptus microcorys, whose wood has a greasy feel when cut
  2. (usually) Ximenia americana, a tree of the tropics bearing cherished fruits.
    Synonyms:
    mountain plum
  3. (broadly, uncommon, usually) The tropical fruit-tree genus Ximenia.
    • The Tallowwood family numbers about 27 genera and nearly 150 species of trees, shrubs and lianas scattered throughout the tropical forests of the world. […]
      The tallowwoods
      Ximenia L.
      These are a small genus comprising five species of widely distributed tropical trees and shrubs. One of them, X....1946, Ellwood Scott Harrar, Jacob George Harrar, Guide to Southern Trees, 2nd edition, New York: Dover Publications, published 1962, →ISBN, page 263

Forms of tallow wood

pluraltallow woods

Questions about tallow wood

What is tallow wood the alternative spelling of?
Tallow wood is the alternative spelling of tallowwood.

Words near tallow wood in the dictionary

  1. tallow
  2. tallow gourd
  3. tallow gourds
  4. tallow tree
  5. tallow trees
  6. tallow wood
  7. tallow woods
  8. tallow-faced
  9. tallow-wood
  10. tallow-woods
  11. tallowate

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