RABBITWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rabbitwood mean? 

• RABBITWOOD (noun)
  The noun RABBITWOOD has 1 sense:

1. shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes

  Familiarity information: RABBITWOOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RABBITWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrub of southeastern United States parasitic on roots of hemlocks having sparse spikes of greenish flowers and pulpy drupes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

buffalo nut; Pyrularia pubera; rabbitwood

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

parasitic plant (plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it)

Meronyms (parts of "rabbitwood"):

buffalo nut; elk nut; oil nut (oily drupaceous fruit of rabbitwood)

Holonyms ("rabbitwood" is a member of...):

genus Pyrularia; Pyrularia (small genus of chiefly Asiatic parasitic shrubs)