lancewood

2 definitions found

lancewood - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Lancewood \Lance"wood`\, n. (Bot.)
     A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs,
     archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree
     which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of
     Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family
     (Anonase[ae]).
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Australian lancewood, a myrtaceous tree (Backhousia  Australis
        ).
        [1913 Webster]

lancewood - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  lancewood
      n 1: durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used
           for building and cabinetwork and tools
      2: source of most of the lancewood of commerce [syn:
         lancewood, lancewood tree, Oxandra lanceolata]