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Blackwood

A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.

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Lightwood 76% connected

Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or ma…

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Logwood 76% connected

The heartwood of a tree (Haematoxylon Campechianum), a native of South America, It is a red, heavy wood, containing a crystalline substance called ha…

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Tree 76% connected

Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

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Wood 76% connected

Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

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Adventitious root noun · 78% connection

root growing in an unusual location e.g. from a stem

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Apomict noun · 78% connection

a plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixis

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Appellative adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.

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Arrack noun · 78% connection

A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, m…

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Basil noun · 78% connection

The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground.

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Bethabara wood unknown · 78% connection

A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian.

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Broadleaf noun · 78% connection

A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almo…

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Catalpa noun · 78% connection

A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North Amer…

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Catechu noun · 78% connection

A dry, brown, astringent extract, obtained by decoction and evaporation from the Acacia catechu, and several other plants growing in I…

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Clam verb · 78% connection

A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus m…

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Dark adjective · 78% connection

Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep…

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East noun · 78% connection

The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four c…

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Fish noun · 78% connection

A counter, used in various games.

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Futtock noun · 78% connection

One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked trans…

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Glance noun · 78% connection

A sudden flash of light or splendor.

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Gurjun noun · 78% connection

A thin balsam or wood oil derived from the Diptcrocarpus laevis, an East Indian tree. It is used in medicine, and as a substitute for…

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Horsewood noun · 78% connection

A West Indian tree (Calliandra latifolia) with showy, crimson blossoms.

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Indian adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies.

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Jacaranda noun · 78% connection

The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger wood, and violet woo…

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Keelson noun · 78% connection

A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron…

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