peach-wood

2 definitions found

peach-wood - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  peachwood \peach"wood`\ (p[=e]ch"w[oo^]d`) n.
     1. A tropical tree Caesalpinia echinata, having a prickly
        trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for
        cabinetry.
  
     Syn: Caesalpinia echinata.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. The heavy red wood of the Caesalpinia echinata;
        brazilwood; pernambuco wood.
        [WordNet 1.5]

peach-wood - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  peach-wood
      n 1: tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields
           a red dye and is used for cabinetry [syn: brazilwood,
           peachwood, peach-wood, pernambuco wood, Caesalpinia echinata
           ]