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sweetwood|ˈswiːtwʊd|
A name for various trees and shrubs, chiefly lauraceous, of the West Indies and tropical America, some of which furnish valuable timber; also the timber itself.
black sweetwood, Strychnodaphne (Ocotea) floribunda. loblolly s., Oreodaphne (Ocotea) Leucoxylon; also Sciadophyllum Jacquini (N.O. Araliaceæ). lowland, pepper, or yellow s., Nectandra sanguinea. mountain s., Acrodiclidium jamaicense. Rio Grande s., Oreodaphne Leucoxylon. shrubby s., the genus Amyris (N.O. Rutaceæ or Amyridaceæ). timber s., Oreodaphne (Nectandra) exaltata, N. leucantha, and Acrodiclidium jamaicense. white s., Nectandra leucantha and N. sanguinea. The name is also given to Croton eleuteria of the W. Indies and Bahamas, which yields cascarilla bark. (See Treas. Bot. and Miller Plant-n.)
1607in 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. 53/2 The soil..covered with good oak, ash, walnut tree, poplar, pine, sweet woods. 1624Capt. J. Smith Virginia 197 Many huge bone-fires of sweet-wood. c1711Petiver Gazophyl. viii. 71 Mexican sweet Wood... This is a pale coloured Wood with brownish Clouds, it has a very fragrant Smell especially if chewed. 1721Act 8 Geo. I, c. 12 §2. 1811 Titford Sk. Hortus Bot. Amer. Expl. Plate vii, p. ii, White Sweet⁓ wood (laurus leucoxylon). 1858Hogg Veg. Kingd. 623 The wood of O[reodaphne] exaltata is yellow, very hard and durable, and is called Sweetwood, in Jamaica. 1866Chambers' Encycl. VIII. 491/1 The compound decoction, formerly known as the Decoction of Sweet Woods.
b. attrib., as sweetwood tree; sweetwood bark, a name for cascarilla bark.
1750G. Hughes Barbados 157 The Sweet Wood-tree. 1846Judge Lees in Lindley Veg. Kingd. 279 The plant is scarcely known here [Bahamas] by the name of Cascarilla, but is commonly called Sweet Wood Bark. |