lancewoodn.
/ˈlɑːnswʊd/, /ˈlanswʊd/, U.S. /ˈlænsˌwʊd/ 1.
a. A tough elastic wood imported chiefly from the West Indies, used for carriage-shafts, fishing-rods, cabinet-work, etc. Also, a fishing-rod made of this wood.
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guaiacum1533
guaiac1558
lignum vitae1594
sweetwood1607
green ebony1665
princewoodc1665
alligator wood1696
pimento wood1712
greenheart1719
mahoea1726
galimeta-wood1756
determa1769
bullet-wood1843
cocobolo1849
lancewood1858
silver-balli1858
yari-yari1858
Honduras rosewood1860
sabicu1866
amarant1909
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table in Atlantic Monthly Sept. 497/1 He sent for lancewood to make the thills.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 160/2 The very best ash..is greatly inferior to lance-wood both in strength and elasticity.
1895 Outing 26 376/1 We put the little lancewoods together and started out.
b. A tree yielding this wood; the best known are Duguetia quitarensis from Cuba and Guyana and Oxandra virgata from Jamaica.‘The name in Australia is given to Backhousia myrtifolia and in New Zealand to Panax crassifolium’ (Morris Austral Eng. 1898).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies
sweetwood1607
mastic1657
acajou1666
bastard locust tree1670
bastard locust tree1670
alligator wood1696
muskwood1696
lancewood1697
rodwood1716
cog-wood1725
soapwood1733
down tree?1740
pigeon plum1743
break-axe tree1756
horse-wood1756
loblolly whitewood1756
Spanish elm1756
trumpet-tree1756
ahuehuete1778
ocote1787
locust tree1795
Madeira wood1796
peroba1813
roble1814
louro1816
cecropia1824
purple heart1825
wallaba1825
trumpet-wood1836
gumbo-limbo1837
poui1838
quebracho1839
snake-wood1843
yacca1843
horseflesh wood1851
necklace tree1858
Honduras rosewood1860
turanira1862
softwood1864
wattle-wood1864
balsa tree1866
primavera1871
rauli1874
lemon-wood1879
wheel-tree1882
Spanish stopper1883
gurgeon-stopper1884
pinkwood-tree1884
stopper1884
sloth-tree1885
imbaubaa1893
Spanish cedar1907
amarant1909
Parana pine1916
imbuya1919
mastic-bully1920
banak1921
timbo1924
becuiba1934
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World v. 118 The Lancewood grows strait like our young Ashes; it is very hard, tough and heavy.
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 177 The aculeated Lycium, or Lance-wood. This shrub is common in most parts of the island.
2. = horoeka n.
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tallow-tree1704
rata1773
rosewood1779
red mahogany1798
ironbark1799
wild orange1802
red gum1803
rewarewa1817
red cedar1818
black-butted gum1820
Huon pine1820
miro1820
oak1821
horoeka1831
hinau1832
maire1832
totara1832
blackbutt1833
marri1833
raspberry jam tree1833
kohekohe1835
puriri1835
tawa1839
hickory1840
whau1840
pukatea1841
titoki1842
butterbush1843
iron gum1844
York gum1846
mangeao1848
myall1848
ironheart1859
lilly-pilly1860
belah1862
flindosa1862
jarrah1866
silky oak1866
teak of New South Wales1866
Tolosa-wood1866
turmeric-tree1866
walking-stick palm1869
tooart1870
queenwood1873
tarairi1873
boree1878
yate1880
axe-breaker1884
bangalay1884
coachwood1884
cudgerie1884
feather-wood1884
forest mahogany1884
maiden's blush1884
swamp mahogany1884
tallow-wood1884
teak of New Zealand1884
wandoo1884
heartwood1885
ivorywood1887
Jimmy Low1887
Burdekin plum1889
corkwood1889
pigeon-berry ash1889
red beech1889
silver beech1889
turnip-wood1891
black bean1895
red bean1895
pinkwood1898
poplar1898
rose mahogany1898
quandong1908
lancewood1910
New Zealand honeysuckle1910
Queensland walnut1919
mahogany gum1944
Australian mahogany1948
1910 L. Cockayne N.Z. Plants viii. 120 The lancewood is neither Pseudopanax crassifolium nor P. ferox—it is P. chathamica.
1966 Encycl. N.Z. II. 258/2 Lancewood, Horoeka (Pseudopanax crassifolium).
1966 Encycl. N.Z. II. 259/1 P. ferox, a rather rare and local tree occurring from about latitude 35° southwards, has the same juvenile form as that of lancewood.
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