English Dictionary |
LACEWOOD
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
Dictionary entry overview: What does lacewood mean?
• LACEWOOD (noun)
The noun LACEWOOD has 1 sense:
1. variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
Familiarity information: LACEWOOD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
lacewood; sycamore
Hypernyms ("lacewood" is a kind of...):
wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)
Holonyms ("lacewood" is a substance of...):
plane tree; platan; sycamore (any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits)
Learn English with... Proverbs |
"Let sleeping dogs lie." (Agatha Christie)
"The fruit of silence is tranquility." (Arabic proverb)
"Flatter the mother to get the girl." (Corsican proverb)