Aloes Wood :: Aloes wood () See Agalloch.

Amboyna Wood :: Amboyna wood () A beautiful mottled and curled wood, used in cabinetwork. It is obtained from the Pterocarpus Indicus of Amboyna, Borneo, etc..

Arrowwood :: Arrowwood (n.) A shrub (Viburnum dentatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots..

Backwoods :: Backwoods (n. pl.) The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.

Backwoodsman :: Backwoodsman (n.) A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States..

Backwoodsmen :: Backwoodsmen (pl. ) of Backwoodsma.

Barwood :: Barwood (n.) A red wood of a leguminous tree (Baphia nitida), from Angola and the Gaboon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work..

Basswood :: Basswood (n.) The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree..

Beefwood :: Beefwood (n.) An Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland..

Bethabara Wood :: Bethabara wood () A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian..

Bitterwood :: Bitterwood (n.) A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.

Blackwood :: Blackwood (n.) A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.

Bloodwood :: Bloodwood (n.) A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.

Bogwood :: Bogwood (n.) The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments..

Boxwood :: Boxwood (n.) The wood of the box (Buxus).

Brazil Wood :: Brazil wood () The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan; -- so called before the discovery of America.

Brazil Wood :: Brazil wood () A very heavy wood of a reddish color, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing. The best is the heartwood of Caesalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree; but other trees also yield it. An inferior sort comes from Jamaica, the timber of C. Braziliensis and C. crista. This is often distinguished as Braziletto , but the better kind is also frequently so named..

Browsewood :: Browsewood (n.) Shrubs and bushes upon which animals browse.

Brushwood :: Brushwood (n.) Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.

Brushwood :: Brushwood (n.) Small branches of trees cut off.

Buttonwood :: Buttonwood (n.) The Platanus occidentalis, or American plane tree, a large tree, producing rough balls, from which it is named; -- called also buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa..

Calamander Wood :: Calamander wood () A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros quaesita. Called also Coromandel wood..

Campeachy Wood :: Campeachy Wood () Logwood.

Camwood :: Camwood (n.) See Barwood.

Chatwood :: Chatwood (n.) Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel.

Cocus Wood :: Cocus wood () A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments..

Copsewood :: Copsewood (n.) Brushwood; coppice.

Cottonwood :: Cottonwood (n.) An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States..

Deadwood :: Deadwood (n.) A mass of timbers built into the bow and stern of a vessel to give solidity.

Deadwood :: Deadwood (n.) Dead trees or branches; useless material.

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