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ANGIOSPERMOUS YELLOWWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does angiospermous yellowwood mean? 

ANGIOSPERMOUS YELLOWWOOD (noun)
  The noun ANGIOSPERMOUS YELLOWWOOD has 1 sense:

1. any of various angiospermous trees having yellow woodplay

  Familiarity information: ANGIOSPERMOUS YELLOWWOOD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ANGIOSPERMOUS YELLOWWOOD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various angiospermous trees having yellow wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("angiospermous yellowwood" is a kind of...):

yellowwood; yellowwood tree (any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "angiospermous yellowwood"):

bow wood; Maclura pomifera; mock orange; osage orange (small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and an inedible fruit that resembles an orange; its hard orange-colored wood used for bows by Native Americans; frequently planted as boundary hedge)

Cladrastis kentukea; Cladrastis lutea; gopherwood; Kentucky yellowwood (small handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye)

satinwood; West Indian satinwood; Zanthoxylum flavum (West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily wood)

Australian sumac; Rhodosphaera rhodanthema; Rhus rhodanthema (evergreen of Australia yielding a dark yellow wood)

sweetleaf; Symplocus tinctoria (small yellowwood tree of southern United States having small fragrant white flowers; leaves and bark yield a yellow dye)


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