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whitewood(dictionary)

whitewood (iou)



whitewood noun. L17.
[from WHITE adjective + WOOD noun1.]
Any of various trees with white or light-coloured wood; esp. (a) N. Amer. the tulip tree, Liriodendron tulipifera; the basswood, Tilia americana; (b) Austral. a small tree of arid regions, Atalaya hemiglauca (family Sapindaceae), with grey-green foliage valuable as fodder. Also whitewood tree. L17.
Any light-coloured wood, esp. as not (yet) stained or varnished; spec. wood of the Norway spruce, Picea abies, imported from Continental Europe, or (more fully American whitewood) that of the tulip tree, Liriodendron tulipifera. E18.