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Appellative
noun · 78% connection
A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: west, indian, name, large, timber.
Axe
noun · 78% connection
A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: west, indian, name, large, timber.
Bitterwood
noun · 78% connection
A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: west, indian, name, large, timber.
Bully tree
unknown · 78% connection
The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceae, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yiel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: west, indian, name, large, timber.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: west, indian, name, large, timber.
Chank
noun · 78% connection
The East Indian name for the large spiral shell of several species of sea conch much used in making bangles, esp. Turbinella pyrum. Ca…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: west, indian, name, large, timber.
Cocus wood
unknown · 78% connection
A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: west, indian, name, large, timber.
Conch
noun · 78% connection
A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: west, indian, name, large, timber.
Courbaril
noun · 78% connection
West Indian locust tree having pinnate leaves and panicles of large white or purplish flowers; yields very hard tough wood
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: west, indian, name, large, timber.
Fiddlewood
noun · 78% connection
The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: west, indian, name, large, timber.
Guaiacum
noun · 78% connection
The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum offinale or lignum-vitae, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: west, indian, name, large, timber.
Indian
adjective · 78% connection
Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: west, indian, name, large, timber.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: west, indian, name, large, timber.
Lancewood
noun · 78% connection
A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: west, indian, name, large, timber.
Large
superl. · 78% connection
Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; gre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: west, indian, name, large, timber.
Lignum rhodium
unknown · 78% connection
The fragrant wood of several shrubs and trees, especially of species of Rhodorhiza from the Canary Islands, and of the West Indian Amy…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: west, indian, name, large, timber.
Longicornia
n. pl. · 78% connection
A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennae are very long. Most of them, while in the larval sta…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: west, indian, name, large, timber.
Mahogany
noun · 78% connection
any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddis…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: west, indian, name, large, timber.
