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Lancewood

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Noun

1. lancewood

durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools

2. lancewood, lancewood tree, oxandra lanceolata

source of most of the lancewood of commerce

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Lancewood

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noun
1. 
any of various tropical trees, esp Oxandra lanceolata, yielding a tough elastic wood: family Annonaceae
2. 
the wood of any of these trees
3. Also called: horoeka
a New Zealand forest tree, Pseudopanax crassifolius, with a small round head and a slender trunk

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Lancewood

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noun
1. 
a tough, elastic wood used for shafts, fishing rods, billiard cues, etc.
2. 
any of various tropical trees yielding such wood; esp., a tree (Oxandra lanceolata) of the custard-apple family

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Lancewood

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n.
Any of various trees, especially Oxandra lanceolata of the West Indies, which has hard elastic wood formerly used for bows, carriage shafts, and fishing rods.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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