| 单词 | violet-wood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasviolet-wood violet-wood n. (a) kingwood; (b) the wood of the Australian Acacia pendula; (c) the wood of Andira violacea, a tree of Guyana. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of South American trees letterwood1655 kingwood1788 canary wood1822 saouari wooda1832 macaco-wood1835 paddlewood1837 quebracho1839 mustaiba1843 violet-wood1843 taigu wood1868 rauli1874 louro1914 balsa wood1917 palisander1930 1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 129 Letter-wood (as they call it) and that of Violet,..are very common in that country. 1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 89 King-wood, called also Violet-wood, is imported from the Brazils. 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes I. x. 316 Dandy amateur bushmen have the handle of their stock-whip made of the Myâl, Acacia pendula, or violet wood. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1218/2. < as lemmas |
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