ants' wood
US and Caribbean (now rare )
noun
Any of several small trees of tropical and subtropical America; especially the saffron plum, Sideroxylon celastrinum (family Sapotaceae).
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Charles Sprague Sargent (1841–1927).
- rock, paper, scissors
- rock parakeet
- rock parrot
- rock partridge
- rock pebblar
- rock pebbler
- rock peg
- rock peplar
- rock perch
- rock phosphate
- rock pigeon
- rock pile
- rock pipit
- rock pitch
- rock plant
- rock plover
- rock pool
- rock python
- rock rabbit
- rock rat
- rock record
- rock-ribbed
- rock river
- rock rose
- rock sage