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whitewood|ˈhwaɪtwʊd|
(Also with hyphen; formerly sometimes as two words.)
The name of various trees with white or light-coloured wood; also, the wood of any of these. (Also attrib.)
Among these are the N. American tulip-tree (Liriodendron Tulipifera) and bass-wood (Tilia americana); the W. Indian wild cinnamon (Canella alba, which furnishes white cinnamon or whitewood bark), Tecoma or Tabebuia Leucoxylon (whitewood cedar) and T. pentaphylla, loblolly sweetwood (Oreodaphne or Ocotea Leucoxylon) and white sweetwood (Nectandra leucantha or Antilliana); the Australian cheesewood (Pittosporum bicolor), Lagunaria Patersoni, and Panax elegans (mowbulan whitewood). Also locally applied in England to the lime-tree (Tilia europæa) and the wayfaring-tree (Viburnum Lantana); in quot. 1733, ? the white poplar (Populus alba). See also white wood s.v. white a. 11 b.
1683Poyntz Tobago 29 The White-wood is a Tree of that singular vertue, the worm will seldom touch it. 1696Plukenet Almagestum Opera 1769 II. 215 Leucoxylon..Barbadensibus ostratibus White-wood, Tulip-flower & aliquando Trumpet-flower nuncupatur. 1733W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 183 On the level Ground of this Farm..grows several of these White-wood Trees [viz. poplars, etc.]. Ibid. 184 The low Country-men sometimes call it Dutch Arbel, but the common Name among them is White-wood. 1750G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados v. 124 Where-ever a Manchaneel-tree grows, there is found a White-wood, or a Fig-tree, near it. 1778J. Carver Trav. N. Amer. xix. 499 The Bass or White Wood is a tree of a middling size, and the whitest and softest wood that grows. 1847Halliwell, White-wood, the lime-tree. 1858O. W. Holmes Deacon's Masterpiece v, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese. 1864Grisebach Flora W. Ind. 789 White-wood, Oreodaphne Leucoxylon, Nectandra leucantha, Tecoma Leucoxylon and pentaphylla. Ibid., White⁓wood-bark, Canella alba. Whitewood-cedar, Tecoma Leucoxylon. 1884Miller Plant-n., Lagunaria Patersoni, White-wood, of Australia, Cow-itch-tree, or White Oak, of Norfolk Island. 1908Kipling Lett. of Travel (1920) 133 The lard, the apples, the butter, and the cheese, in beautiful whitewood barrels. |