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BRACELET WOOD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bracelet wood mean?
• BRACELET WOOD (noun)
The noun BRACELET WOOD has 1 sense:
1. small West Indian shrub or tree with hard glossy seeds patterned yellow and brown that are used to make bracelets
Familiarity information: BRACELET WOOD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small West Indian shrub or tree with hard glossy seeds patterned yellow and brown that are used to make bracelets
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
bracelet wood; Jacquinia armillaris
Hypernyms ("bracelet wood" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("bracelet wood" is a member of...):
genus Jacquinia; Jacquinia (sometimes placed in family Myrsinaceae)
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