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Definition of Tar-wood
1. Noun. New Zealand shrub.
Group relationships: Genus Halocarpus, Halocarpus
Generic synonyms: Conifer, Coniferous Tree
2. Noun. New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes.
Group relationships: Dacrydium, Genus Dacrydium
Generic synonyms: Conifer, Coniferous Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tar-wood
Literary usage of Tar-wood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Asphalts and Allied Substances: Their Occurrence, Modes of Production, Uses by Herbert Abraham (1920)
"... TAR, WOOD-TAR PITCH AND ROSIN PITCH WOOD TAR AND WOOD-TAR PITCH THIS chapter
will deal with the treatment of wood, either by destructive distillation, ..."
2. Vegetable Substances: Materials of Manufactures (1833)
"In the common way a cube of six feet of tar-wood yields from two to three, and
sometimes four tuns of tar : burnt by this last described method, ..."
3. Vegetable Substances: Materials of Manufactures (1833)
"In the common way a cube of sit feet of tar-wood yields from two to three, and
sometimes four tuns of tar : burnt by this last described method, ..."