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lancewood
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lancewood has 2 senses
- lancewood(n = noun.plant) Array - durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools; Array is a kind of wood
- lancewood(n = noun.plant) lancewood tree, oxandra lanceolata - source of most of the lancewood of commerce; Array is a kind of tree
CIDE DICTIONARY
lancewood, n.
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 (Anonaseæ ). [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
lancewood, n. a tough elastic wood from a W. Indian tree Oxandra lanceolata, used for carriage-shafts, fishing-rods, etc.
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