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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See lemon wood, under wood.
  2. n. In New Zealand, the hedge-laurel or tarata, Pittosporum eugenioides. Also called mapau and New Zealand oak. See mapau and tarata.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A small evergreen tree, Pittosporum eugenoides, from New Zealand, whose leaves smell of lemon when crushed

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. hard tough elastic wood of the lemonwood tree; used for making bows and fishing rods.
  2. n. A South African evergreen having hard tough wood.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. South African evergreen having hard tough wood
  2. n. hard tough elastic wood of the lemonwood tree; used for making bows and fishing rods
  3. n. South African evergreen having hard tough wood

Examples

  • “Amanda just happened to have some such stones in her centaur-carved lemonwood herb cabinet (all dried plant material in the cabinet had been confiscated by the Sacramento police), so she let Nearly Normal to a grassy spot by the river where he lay with the stones on his forehead and midsection.”

    Another Roadside Attraction

  • “Furniture of ivory, of ebony and lemonwood, preciously inlaid, gave to the place an air of cunning confusion.”

    Tales of Chinatown

  • “On the step of the oven, we mixed the contents of the tanjia with a long-handled lemonwood spoon and then secured some aluminium foil over the top.”

    iToot Stream

  • “LĂ©onie its rays, sinking until they touched and lay along her window-sill, would there be caught and held by the large inner curtains and the bands which tied them back to the wall, and split and scattered and filtered; and then, at last, would fall upon and inlay with tiny flakes of gold the lemonwood of her chest-of-drawers, illuminating the room in their passage with the same delicate, slanting, shadowed beams that fall among the boles of forest trees.”

    Swann's Way

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