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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 tools
2. source of most of the lancewood of commerce
Familiarity information: LANCEWOOD used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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