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Definition of Gopherwood
1. Noun. Small handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye.
Generic synonyms: Angiospermous Yellowwood
Group relationships: Cladrastis, Genus Cladrastis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gopherwood
Literary usage of Gopherwood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1910)
"... who was'—then turning the page—'one hundred and forty cubits long, forty cubits
wide, built of gopherwood, and covered with pitch inside and out. ..."
2. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"... who was'—then turning the page—' one hundred and forty cubits long, forty
cubits wide, built of gopherwood, and covered with pitch inside and out. ..."
3. Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools by Edwin Mims (1910)
"... who was"—then turning the page—" 140 cubits long—40 cubits wide, built of
gopherwood—and covered with pitch inside and out." He was naturally puzzled at ..."
4. American Antiquities and Discoveries in the West: Being an Exhibition of the by Josiah Priest (1833)
"... that God said to Noah, make thee an ark of gopherwood. Surely Noah did not
make the central parts of Asia, called Theba, or Thibet; neither was he ..."
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