Definition of Shittimwood

1. Noun. Deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico.


2. Noun. Shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit.

3. Noun. Wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle.
Substance meronyms: Shittah, Shittah Tree
Generic synonyms: Wood

Definition of Shittimwood

1. [n -S]

Literary usage of Shittimwood

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

1. The Freemasons' Monthly Magazine by Charles Whitlock Moore (1862)
"The shittimwood, or Acacia, then, as a " wood of «incorruptibility," is at the eame lime a " wood of life or immortality," and in Egypt for this reason we ..."

2. Mammals of the Mexican Boundary of the United States: A Descriptive by Edgar Alexander Mearns (1907)
"... the mountains of the Coast Range in California. BUMELIA RIGIDA (A. Gray) Small. shittimwood. This is a spiny shrub or small tree of the Sonoran ..."

3. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"... or tree 10-60 feet high, shittimwood sometimes with a trunk diameter of 3 p . feet, the bark similar, in a network of j, ... strong, confluent ridges, ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Shittimwood on Dictionary.com!Search for Shittimwood on Thesaurus.com!Search for Shittimwood on Google!Search for Shittimwood on Wikipedia!

Search