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LANCEWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lancewood mean? 

LANCEWOOD (noun)
  The noun LANCEWOOD has 2 senses:

1. durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and toolsplay

2. source of most of the lancewood of commerceplay

  Familiarity information: LANCEWOOD used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LANCEWOOD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("lancewood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("lancewood" is a substance of...):

lancewood; lancewood tree; Oxandra lanceolata (source of most of the lancewood of commerce)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Source of most of the lancewood of commerce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

lancewood; lancewood tree; Oxandra lanceolata

Hypernyms ("lancewood" 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)

Meronyms (substance of "lancewood"):

lancewood (durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools)


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