Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A South African tree, Ptæroxylon utile, or its timber.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The wood of a South African tree. See
neishout .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
wood of aSouth African tree ; neishout.
Etymologies
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sneeze + wood
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Examples
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There were tall timber-trees — yellowwood, sneezewood, essenwood, stinkwood — and the ground was carpeted with thick grass and ferns.
Prester John 2005
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If they could not get sneezewood for building homes, for example, they would take it from reserves illegally.
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There were tall timber-trees -- yellowwood, sneezewood, essenwood, stinkwood -- and the ground was carpeted with thick grass and ferns.
Prester John John Buchan 1907
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