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Definition of Lemon-wood
1. Noun. South African evergreen having hard tough wood.
Group relationships: Genus Psychotria, Psychotria
Terms within: Lemonwood
Generic synonyms: Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lemon-wood
Literary usage of Lemon-wood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases and Usages with by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"329: "The tarata or lemon-wood, a most beautiful tree, also used for hedges."
1889. ... It is known to the settlers in some pans as ' lemon-wood. ..."
2. De Orbe Novo: The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by Pietro Martire d' Anghiera (1912)
"It is said that clothing put in lemon-wood boxes acquires an agreeable smell and
... As we have said, ships built of lemon-wood are never attacked by worms. ..."
3. Wood and Forest by William Noyes (1912)
"Heart-wood light orange red: sap-wood, pale lemon; wood, heavy and hard YEW. 6.
Heartwood purplish to brownish red; sap-wood yellowish white: wood soft to ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"However, in connection with this it deserves mention that, according to Seubert,
under " lemon wood" or "West Indian rose wood " is also understood the wood ..."
5. The Tribune Book of Open-air Sports by Ottmar Mergenthaler, Henry Hall (1887)
"$50, one of lemon wood about $10; the latter is good enough for all practical
purposes. An excellent weapon can be made by any person of a mechanical turn ..."
6. Wood: A Manual of the Natural History and Industrial Applications of the by George Simonds Boulger (1908)
"India, Burma, and the Andaman Islands. Height 80 ft. to the first branch ; diam.
4 ft. W 39. Brown, beautifully mottled, moderately hard. lemon-wood ..."
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