Definition of Southernwoods

1. Noun. (plural of southernwood) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Southernwoods

1. southernwood [n] - See also: southernwood

Lexicographical Neighbors of Southernwoods

southern screamers
southern scup
southern spadefoot
southern spatterdock
southern vole
southern voles
southern white cedar
southern yellow pine
southernism
southernly
southernness
southernnesses
southerns
southernwood
southernwoods (current term)
southers
southing
southings
southland
southlands
southly
southness
southnesses
southpaw
southpaws
southren
southron
southrons

Literary usage of Southernwoods

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

1. "Alongside;": Being Notes Suggested by "A New England Boyhood" of Doctor by Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1900)
"... combs" and " southernwoods." A large lot was devoted to vegetables and herbs. It was to such houses as these that we children went modestly for our May ..."

2. Chambers' Edinburgh Journal by Robert Chambers, William Chambers (1851)
"... southernwoods, and tansy, are among the tonic aM bitter medicinal plants of the first sub-order; and tw the camomile. ..."

3. The Chinese Classics: Translated Into English, with Preliminary Essays and by James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Ching Shih (1876)
"2 Where streams among the valleys shine, Of southernwoods she plucks the white; And brings it to the sacred shrine, To aid our prince in solemn rite. ..."

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