Lingoa Wood :: Lingoa wood () Amboyna wood.

Linsey-woolsey :: Linsey-woolsey (n.) Cloth made of linen and wool, mixed..

Linsey-woolsey :: Linsey-woolsey (n.) Jargon.

Linsey-woolsey :: Linsey-woolsey (a.) Made of linen and wool; hence, of different and unsuitable parts; mean..

Logwood :: Logwood (n.) The heartwood of a tree (Haematoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called haematoxylin, and is used largely in dyeing. An extract from this wood is used in medicine as an astringent. Also called Campeachy wood, and bloodwood..

Moosewood :: Moosewood (n.) The striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum).

Moosewood :: Moosewood (n.) Leatherwood.

Muskwood :: Muskwood (n.) The wood of a West Indian tree of the Mahogany family (Moschoxylum Swartzii).

Muskwood :: Muskwood (n.) The wood of an Australian tree (Eurybia argophylla).

Myall Wood :: Myall wood () A durable, fragrant, and dark-colored Australian wood, used by the natives for spears. It is obtained from the small tree Acacia homolophylla..

Nicaragua Wood :: Nicaragua wood () Brazil wood.

Olivewood :: Olivewood (n.) The wood of the olive.

Olivewood :: Olivewood (n.) An Australian name given to the hard white wood of certain trees of the genus Elaeodendron, and also to the trees themselves..

Omander Wood :: Omander wood () The wood of Diospyros ebenaster, a kind of ebony found in Ceylon..

Orewood :: Orewood (n.) Same as Oarweed.

Paddlewood :: Paddlewood (n.) The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks..

Pockwood :: Pockwood (n.) Lignum-vitae.

Porkwood :: Porkwood (n.) The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood..

Prickwood :: Prickwood (n.) A shrub (Euonymus Europaeus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree..

Princewood :: Princewood (n.) The wood of two small tropical American trees (Hamelia ventricosa, and Cordia gerascanthoides). It is brownish, veined with lighter color..

Purplewood :: Purplewood (n.) Same as Purpleheart.

Redwood :: Redwood (n.) A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia..

Redwood :: Redwood (n.) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Caesalpinia Sappan, and several other trees..

Ribbonwood :: Ribbonwood (n.) A malvaceous tree (Hoheria populnea) of New Zealand, the bark of which is used for cordage..

Rockwood :: Rockwood (n.) Ligniform asbestus; also, fossil wood..

Rosetta Wood :: Rosetta wood () An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork..

Rosewood :: Rosewood (n.) A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machaerium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra..

Rubywood :: Rubywood (n.) red sandalwood. See under Sandalwood.

Sandalwood :: Sandalwood (n.) The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S. pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood..

Sandalwood :: Sandalwood (n.) Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood..

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