Meaning of lancewood | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A tough, elastic and heavy wood obtained from the West Indies and Guiana, formerly much used for carriage shafts (Oxandra lanceolata).
   countable, uncountable
2. New Zealand trees in the genus Pseudopanax.
   countable, uncountable
3. Any of various Australian trees having hard timber, especially Acacia shirleyi of Queensland and the Northern Territory; also a woodland made of such trees.
   Australia, countable, uncountable

Examples

“Besides these two trees, which are the most general form⟳ of vegetation met with, may be found the briglow, bugwood, lapunya, lancewood, cork, box, and bloodwood, the last⟳ so named from its light⟳ red sap, which oozes in a thick stream”

“Bo sat on the sprung branch of a toppled lancewood.”

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