Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A southern African deciduous tree (Ocotea bullata) having wood with an unpleasant odor.
- n. The hard, heavy wood of this tree, used in cabinetwork.
- n. Any of several trees having wood with an unpleasant odor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of several trees with fetid wood. In South Africa, Ocotea bullata (see
Ocotea ) and Celtis Kraussiana, the latter a tree 20 feet high and 2 feet in diameter, with a tough yellowish-white wood used for planks, cooperage, etc.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of several unrelated trees whose wood has an unpleasant smell, but especially Ocotea bullata, a south African tree yielding hard, heavy wood
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the Fœtidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.
Examples
“Approximately 40% of the forest is medium-rich to rich mixed forest, including key species such as red stinkwood Prunus africana, nationally threatened Newtonia buchanani, Symphonia globulifera, Chrysophyllum pruniforme, Podocarpus spp. and Strombosia scheffleri.”
“Lower down are unspoilt well watered wooded valleys containing a variety of microhabitats and trees such as white stinkwood Celtis africana, wild peach Kiggelaria africana, tree fuchsia Halleria lucida, sagewood Buddleja salvifolia and orange thorn Cassinopsis ilicifolia.”
“There were tall timber-trees — yellowwood, sneezewood, essenwood, stinkwood — and the ground was carpeted with thick grass and ferns.”
“We took a path up the Berg among groves of stinkwood and essenwood, where a failing stream made an easy route.”
“Sticks of stinkwood mixed in with our regular firewood drove us out of the room another evening.”
“The trophy awarded to Mr Mandela had been made of yellowwood and stinkwood.”
“He looked at her across the polished stinkwood breakfast table with its encrustation of - H silver and exquisite bone china, and he sighed again.”
“Max went to the stinkwood desk which filled one corner of the room and picked up a sheaf of papers.”
“The plan was for a modest little four-room building, but it finally expanded to two stories, stinkwood floors, oak panelling and twenty rooms.”
“He saw Max take two quicksteps to the stinkwood desk in the corner, pull open the top drawer and drop his hand into it.”
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See The Wood For The Trees
Tree names that end in -wood. Anything ending in -wood that only refers to the wood, eg. applewood, firewood, etc. shall not be planted in this garden.
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