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Definition of Tarwood

1. Noun. New Zealand shrub.

2. Noun. New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarwood

tartrovinic tartrovinic acid tarts tartufes tartuffe tartufferies tartuffery tartuffes tartuffish tartufish

tarweed tarweeds tarwhine tarwhines tarwood (current term) tarzans tas tasar tasars tase

tased taseqite taser tasered tasering tasers tash tashed tashes

Literary usage of Tarwood

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

1. Hunting Songs and Miscellaneous Verses by Rowland Eyles Egerton-Warburton (1860)
"tarwood. A RUN WITH THE HEYTHROP. HE waited not—he was not found— No warning note from eager hound, But echo of the ..."

2. Finland: Its Forests and Forest Management by John Croumbie Brown (1883)
"tarwood of fir or pine. As pinewood from 15 to 20 years' growth is cut down in thinning, ... All such may be reckoned and designated tarwood. 11. ..."

3. Hunting Songs by Rowland Eyles Egerton-Warburton (1877)
"This gallant fox, in tarwood found, ... That morning, in the faddle fet, A hundred men at tarwood met; ..."

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