pinkwoodn.
/ˈpɪŋkwʊd/, U.S. /ˈpɪŋkˌwʊd/ 1. The ornamental wood of any of several Australian trees and tall shrubs; spec. (a) either of two trees of the genus Eucryphia (family Eucryphiaceae), E. lucida of Tasmania, and E. moorei of south-east Australia; (b) the wallaby bush, Beyeria viscosa (family Euphorbiaceae) (now rare). Also: any of these trees.
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banksia1787
waratah1793
honeysuckle1803
pinkwood1824
honeysuckle tree1825
rose1825
blue bush1828
dogwood1828
parrotbill1829
tulip-tree1830
whitebeard1832
swamp-oak1833
bauera1835
mungitec1837
bottlebrush1839
clianthus1841
glory-pea1848
boronia1852
koromiko1855
pituri1861
Sturt's pea1865
scrub vine1866
pea-bush1867
cotton-bush1876
Australian honeysuckle1881
peach myrtle1882
saloop bush1884
naupaka1888
dog rose1896
native tulip1898
snow bush1909
wedding-bush1923
Hebe1961
mountain pepper1965
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian
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
1824 Hobart Town Gaz. 1 Oct. Colonial Timber may at any time be purchased of an inhabitant of this town...Cherry Tree and Pink Wood, for furniture and gun stocks.
1877 Illustr. Austral. News (Melbourne) 3 Sept. 138/1 The bases of the mountains are clad with the most luxuriant growth of forest vegetation, such as..the beautiful pinkwood (eucryphia billardieri).
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Pinkwood, a name for a Tasmanian wood of a pale reddish mahogany colour, Eucryphia billardieri,..and for the Wallaby bush, Beyera viscosa.., common to all the colonies of Australasia.
1903 Tasmanian Timbers (Tasmania Lands & Survey Dept.) 29 Pinkwood or Rosewood (Beyera viscosa)..a small tree with a reddish wood.
1942 C. S. Barrett Austral. Wild Flower Bk. 41 The pink wood, Eucryphia Billardieri..with its glistening winter buds and large snow-white flowers.
1996 Woman's Day (Sydney) 10 June 101/2 Sometimes mistaken for a sasanqua camellia when in bloom, autumn-flowering pinkwood or plumwood..is actually a native plant.
2. The ornamental wood of either of two Brazilian trees: †(a) the tree Dicypellium caryophyllatum (family Lauraceae) (obsolete rare); (b) Brazilian tulipwood, Dalbergia frutescens (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)) (rare). Also (more fully pinkwood-tree): either of these trees.Sense 2(a) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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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
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Pink-wood-tree, Persea caryophyllata. Brazilian. Physocalymma floridum.
1974 Nomencl. Commerc. Timbers (B.S.I.) 18 Brazilian tulipwood... Pinkwood (USA).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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