odumn.

1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 213 The ‘Odoom’ tree of the Gold Coast..To those Colonies this wood is invaluable, as it can withstand for years not only the weather, but also the attacks of the ‘white ant’.

1887 C. A. Moloney Sketch Forestry W. Afr. 247 Where such wood as ‘odoom’ (‘oroko’) is available.

1900 Daily News 6 Mar. 2/1 Two trees, the mahogany and a tree known locally as Odoom, which are found of large size and in considerable abundance, are admirably adapted for mine timbers.

1905 R. A. Freeman Golden Pool xiii. 119 The black, sluggish waters were spanned by a rude bridge formed of a single gigantic odúm tree.

1920 Nature 29 July 692/1 Another valuable wood is that labelled Odum..which has also been exported as Iroko, sometimes falsely termed African teak... It possesses none of the qualities of teak with the exception of a superficial resemblance in colour.

1959 A. Abbs Ashanti Boy i. 38 Low easy-chairs made of local mahogany or odum wood.

1978 A. K. Armah Healers iv. v. 166 In the shade of five great odum trees three houses stood across the open space.

1997 Ethnohistory 44 675 The Ashanti once practiced a similar ordeal, known as we odom, or ‘chew odom’ (referring to the bark of the tree known as odom or odum)... ‘The poison is..drunk, the bark being pounded and mixed in water. Should the person accused of being a witch vomit the poison and recover, the accuser would be fined.’