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DEVILWOOD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does devilwood mean?
• DEVILWOOD (noun)
The noun DEVILWOOD has 1 sense:
1. small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits
Familiarity information: DEVILWOOD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
American olive; devilwood; Osmanthus americanus
Hypernyms ("devilwood" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Holonyms ("devilwood" is a member of...):
genus Osmanthus; Osmanthus (widely distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or trees of southern United States and Middle East and China and Japan)
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