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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yellowwood \Yel"low*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees;
also any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so
called are the {Cladrastis tinctoria}, an American leguminous
tree; the several species of prickly ash ({Xanthoxylum}); the
Australian {Flindersia Oxleyana}, a tree related to the
mahogany; certain South African species of {Podocarpus},
trees related to the yew; the East Indian {Podocarpus
latifolia}; and the true satinwood ({Chloroxylon Swietenia}).
All these Old World trees furnish valuable timber.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
yellowwood
n 1: small handsome round-headed deciduous tree having showy
white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood
yielding yellow dye [syn: {Kentucky yellowwood}, {gopherwood},
{Cladrastis lutea}, {Cladrastis kentukea}]
2: yellow-colored wood of any of various yellowwood trees
3: any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a
yellow extract [syn: {yellowwood tree}]
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