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Lightwood

noun
1.
Tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber.  Synonym: Acacia melanoxylon.





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"Lightwood" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Blackwood, Lightwood—rather frequent on many rich river-flats . . . .It is very close-grained and heavy, and is useful for all purposes where strength and flexibility ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
... rose bright; but ere the sun had time to wreak his fury upon us every soul in the household was abroad, under the shade of the lightwood trees, to hear the Major read ...
— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley


Words linked to "Lightwood" :   blackwood tree, genus Acacia, Acacia melanoxylon, blackwood


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