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Definition of Arrow wood

1. Noun. Closely related to southern arrow wood; grows in the eastern United States from Maine to Ohio and Georgia.

2. Noun. Deciduous shrub of eastern North America having blue-black berries and tough pliant wood formerly used to make arrows.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arrow Wood

arrosion arrove arrow arrow-finger arrow-shaped arrow arum arrow key arrow keys arrow leaved aster arrow of time

arrow point tracing arrow poison arrow wood (current term) arrow worm arrow worms arrowe arrowed arrowes arrowhead arrowheaded

arrowheads arrowing arrowleaf arrowleaf groundse arrowleaf groundsel

Literary usage of Arrow wood

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

1. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"—ARROW-WOOD. Character of the Genus.—Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla rotate, deeply 5- lobed. Stamens 5. ..."

2. A Year Among the Trees: Or, The Woods and By-ways of New England by Wilson Flagg (1881)
"THE ARROW-WOOD. Among the several species which I shall not attempt to describe, one of the most common and familiar is the Arrow-Wood, so called from the ..."

3. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1873)
"It is called arrow- wood from the long, straight, slender branches or young shoots. Lvs. roundish,, 2 to 3' diam., the upper pair oval, the veins beneath ..."

4. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"A shrub 8 to \2t high, not uncommon in damp woods and thickets, Can. to Ga, It is called arrow- wood from the long, straight, slender branches or young ..."

5. The Book of Woodcraft and Indian Lore by Ernest Thompson Seton (1921)
"FLOWERING DOGWOOD, ARROW-WOOD, BOXWOOD. ... DOGWOOD FAMILY FLOWERING DOGWOOD, ARROW-WOOD, BOXWOOD, CORNELIAN TRET. ..."

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