Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A tropical American tree (Ocotea rodioei) having dark, greenish, durable wood.
- n. Any of various similar trees.
- n. The wood of any of these trees.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The Nectandra Rodiæi, a large lauraceous tree of Guiana. Its timber is remarkably hard, and is highly valued for its strength and durability. Its bark is known in commerce as bebeeru bark, and is used as a tonic and febrifuge.
- n. In Jamaica, the Colubrina ferruginosa, a small rhamnaceous tree.
- n. In Jamaica. Zizyphus Chloroxylon, one of the trees called cog-wood.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- green + heart (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The first cost is more than for rods whose various parts are made of different woods, but the greenheart is the cheapest rod in the end.”
“Her sides are some eighteen inches thick, and sheathed and resheathed with "greenheart" to help her in battering the ice.”
A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
“For crossing the river they have bridges that stretch from one great greenheart tree to another on the opposite bank...”
“She is of about 350 tons, and built of selected pine, oak, and greenheart.”
“As it was already put together in the rack at the back of the hotel, I borrowed it just to save the bother of fixing up my own greenheart.”
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
“I saw the Parson weeded four times yesterday with his little ten-foot greenheart.”
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
“My rod, I might explain, was the trolling or sea fishing version of a capital greenheart portmanteau rod, to which I had treated myself in hopes of use in Canadian waters, and was a stiff little pole (in this form) of a trifle over 9 ft.”
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
“For ordinary purposes 17 feet of greenheart or split-cane are ample, and the modern salmon angler has come to look upon even this -- which our forefathers would have pooh-poohed as a mere grilse-rod -- as excessive.”
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
“The smaller greenheart, therefore, for the third time gallantly survived its month on a Norway river; but those rocks have literally chipped the shine from every joint, leaving, I believe and hope, its constitution, nevertheless, quite sound.”
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
“I saw a friend last autumn produce a 15-foot greenheart rod on Tweedside.”
Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
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Open List: Greens
A lits of greens: cooked leafy vegetables; pigments, paint names, compound words, etc; words and phrases that pertain to or contain "green". Please add your favorites!
See this list f...greenery, collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, green shoots, viridian green, malachite green, sap green, green grocer, radish greens, beet greens, spring green and 282 more...
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green phrases/ words
green,how its used
green acres, green activist, green alder, green-and-gold, green and pale, green and wan, green anole, green apron, green architecture, green arrow, green ash, green audit and 393 more...
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Rods
grilse-rod, greenheart, black-rod, bamboo rod, salmon-rod, fly-rod, trout-rod, bass-rod, trolling-rod, bait-rod, connecting rod, engineer's rod and 19 more...
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Trees!
mahogany, sequoia, balsa, sandalwood, tamarind, balsam, eucalyptus, birch, willow, buttonwood, evergreen, loblolly and 501 more...
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hernesheir One of the woods traditionally used to make fishing rods. Jan 5, 2012