false mastic
noun
A tall tree of Florida, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America, Sideroxylon foetidissimum (family Sapotaceae), which yields a hard wood suitable for construction and furniture and bears yellow flowers with a cheesy smell; also called mastic, mastic-bully.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Scientific Monthly.
- annus horribilis
- annus mirabilis
- anoa
- anococcygeal
- anodal
- anodally
- anode
- anodic
- anodise
- anodize
- anodizer
- a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse
- anodyne
- anogenital
- anoint
- anointer
- Anointing of the Sick
- anointment
- an old chestnut
- anole
- anolis
- anomalistic
- anomalistic month
- anomalistic year
- anomalous