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Definition of Shittimwood
1. Noun. Deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico.
Generic synonyms: Buckthorn
2. Noun. Shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit.
Generic synonyms: Buckthorn
3. Noun. Wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle.
Definition of Shittimwood
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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, ..."
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