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ˈpepperwood
Name given to several trees having pungent or aromatic wood or bark.
Among these are Xanthoxylum Clava-herculis, of West Indies, etc. (Hough American Woods, 1894, v. 30); Umbellularia Californica (Ibid. 1897, vii. 34); also, Dicypellium caryophyllatum Nees, Brazil Clove Bark (Pao cravo, Imyra Quiynha), and Licaria guianensis (Carib Licari-Kanali), the Bois de Rose of Cayenne (Treas. Bot., Suppt. 1874; Miller Plant-names, 1884).
1856U.S. Naut. Mag. & Naval Jrnl. V. 228 The timber used..is pepperwood, and was cut from the land close by the prison [sc. San Quentin, California]. 1858C. E. De Lone Jrnl. 5 Mar. in Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. (1930) IX. 253 Noticed the beautie's of the peper [sic] wood tree. 1882Humboldt Times (Eureka, Calif.) 7 Jan. 1/4 The schooner Alaska, lying in the bay ready for sea, has on board 50,000 feet of pepperwood, commonly called California laurel. 1894R. B. Hough Amer. Woods V. 30 Xanthoxylum Clava-Herculis, L. Prickly Ash, Sea Ash, Toothache Tree, Pepperwood. 1949Natural Hist. Mar. 130/2 Under a pepperwood tree they did find a pile of glass flakings. |