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Definition of Snake wood

1. Noun. Tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Snake Wood

Literary usage of Snake wood

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"SNAKE-WOOD, any of various woods and plants. ... perhaps, from its twisted grain, Plumeria rubra and Cecropia peltata, are also called snake- wood. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1867)
"... snake wood. The wood of the Strychnos in different states. The crystals belong to tit colubrina. Supposed to be an antidote to the \ rhombohedral system ..."

3. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1813)
"Trumpet-tree, or Snake-wood. . Nut. of Jamaica. Introd, 1778, by Thomas Clark, MD SALIX. Gen. pi. 1493. , MASC. ..."

4. A Manual of the Hand Lathe: Comprising Concise Directions for Working Metals by Egbert Pomeroy Watson (1869)
"snake wood. Prominent on the list of foreign woods is snake wood, or, as it is sometimes called, leopard wood. The markings and mottlings in this wood are ..."

5. A Manual of the Hand Lathe: Comprising Concise Directions for Working Metals by Egbert Pomeroy Watson (1869)
"snake wood. Prominent on the list of foreign woods is snake wood, or, as it is sometimes called, leopard wood. The markings and mottlings in this wood are ..."

6. The Timber Trees, Timber and Fancy Woods, as Also, the Forests, of India and by Edward Balfour (1862)
"The wood is of a light grey colour, hard, and intensely bitter. It forms one of the woods known in Britain as snake wood, along with those of the ..."

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