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pepperwood
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pepperwood has 1 sense
- pepperwood(n = noun.plant) california bay tree, california laurel, california olive, mountain laurel, oregon myrtle, sassafras laurel, spice tree, umbellularia californica - Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood; Array is a kind of laurel
is a member of genus umbellularia, umbellularia
CIDE DICTIONARY
pepperwood, n.
A Pacific coast tree (Umbellularia californica ) having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood. [WordNet 1.5]
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