muskwoodn.
/ˈmʌskwʊd/, U.S. /ˈməskˌwʊd/ I. Compounds.
1. † musk-wood crowfoot n. Obsolete = musk-crowfoot n. at musk n. Compounds 5a.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Caprifoliaceae family or plant > [noun] > moschatel
musk-wood crowfoot1688
moschatel1732
hollow-root1788
musk-crowfoot1855
town-hall clock1899
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 103 Musk-wood Crowfoot hath the leaf divided [etc.].
1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum Moscatella,..in English, The Muskwood Crowfoot. This is found growing in Woods, Groves, and Orchards.
1757 Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 831 Tuberous Moschatell, or Musk-wood Crowfoot.
II. Simple uses.
2.
a. Either of two tropical American trees of the family Meliaceae whose wood has a musky fragrance, Trichilia moschata and Guarea trichilioides (also called alligator wood).
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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
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular tree or plant yielding useful gum or resin > [noun] > of South America or West Indies > other South American gum trees
muskwood1696
weeping bower1696
wax-tree1843
resin plant1846
carnauba1854
1696 H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 137 Lauro affinis arbor..ligno moschum olente. Alleygator or Musk-wood.
a1726 H. Barham Hortus Americanus (1794) 107 Musk-Wood. This is vulgarly and commonly called alligator-wood.
1837 J. Macfadyen Flora Jamaica I. 170 Trichilia moschata. Common shrubby muskwood.
1863 Chambers's Encycl. V. 127/1 Guarea grandifolia is called Musk-wood in some of the islands of the West Indies; the bark smelling so strongly of musk, that it may be used as a perfume.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 767/1 Musk-wood of Jamaica. Moschoxylum Swartzii; also Guarea Swartzii.
1920 W. Fawcett & A. B. Rendle Flora Jamaica IV. 215 Musk Wood, Alligator Wood, Wild Akee..All parts of the tree, especially the bark, have a strong smell of musk.
1970 E. T. Robertson & E. G. B. Gooding Bot. for Caribbean (ed. 2) xviii. 133 The trees [in the mist forest] include..Muskwood or Acajou (Guarea glabra).
b. Either of two Australian trees whose wood has a musky smell: (a) Alangium villosum (family Alangiaceae, formerly called Marlea vitiensis) a rainforest tree allied to the cornels, of Queensland and New South Wales; (b) the musk tree Olearia argophylla. Also: the wood of either of these trees.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > other Australasian trees or shrubs
burrawang1826
water gum1826
kaikomako1832
karaka1834
kawa-kawa1838
peppermint1838
bottle tree1844
ngaio1849
Grevillea1853
red birch1853
wooden pear1860
muskwood1866
sugar-tree1866
tulip-tree1866
hop-bush1883
mock orange1884
mountain beech1884
sage tree1884
tile-seed1884
mutton-bird scrub1889
red birch1889
silver-tree1889
whalebone-tree1889
budda1890
camphor laurel1894
pepperbush1895
mustard bush1898
willow myrtle1898
pigeon wood1899
horizontal scrub1909
turkey-bush1911
pandani1923
mock orange1929
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 767/1 Musk-wood,..of New South Wales and Tasmania. Eurybia argophylla.
1895 J. H. Maiden Notes on Commercial Timbers New S. Wales 24 Muskwood (Olearia argophylla)..requires the most careful seasoning, otherwise it warps and twists very much.
1906 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 31 374 Marlea vitiensis..yields a very good timber, which is known locally as ‘Muskwood’.
1932 R. H. Anderson Trees of New S. Wales 169 Muskwood (Marlea vitiensis) occurs as a small to medium-sized tree northwards from the Clarence.
1984 Flora Austral. XXII. 11 Allangium villosum—tree to 9 m... Muskwood.
3. Pharmacology. The bark of the liquidambar of Asia Minor, Liquidambar orientalis, which is the source of liquid storax.
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1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. II Thymiama..or Thus judæorum, musk-wood; a kind of bark, in small brownish-grey pieces, brought from Syria, and supposed to be the produce of the liquid-storax tree.
1892 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Muskwood, the name of a bark obtained from Syria, and supposed to be the product of the liquid storax tree. It has an agreeable balsamic smell.
1923 B. Harmon Mosaics 51 O bring me sweets, my gay Pierrot, Musk-wood and rose ottar.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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