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lancewood |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lancewood \Lance"wood`\, n. (Bot.) A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like Also the tree which produces this wood, {Duguetia Quitarensis} (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family ({Anonase[ae]}). {Australian lancewood}, a myrtaceous tree ({Backhousia Australis}). From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: lancewood n 1: durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools 2: source of most of the lancewood of commerce [syn: {lancewood tree}, {Oxandra lanceolata}]
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