Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several tropical American trees of the genus Amyris, especially A. balsamifera, having resinous wood that burns with a torchlike flame.
- n. The wood of any of these trees.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Wood suitable for making torches.
- n. A tree of the rutaceous genus Amyris, either A. maritima of Florida and the West Indies, or A. balsamifera of the West Indies. A. maritima is a slender tree reaching 50 feet high; the wood is very hard and durable, suitable for use in the arts, could it be had in large quantities, very resinous, and much used for fuel on the Florida keys. A. balsamifera is smaller, very fragrant in burning, used to scent dwellings. In the West Indies the shrub Casearia (Thiodia) serrata of the Samydaceæ is also so called.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable Wood used to make torches.
- n. A tree of the genus Amyris.
- n. A type of cactus, Cereus heptagonus.
- n. Wood exhibiting fungal bioluminescence, foxfire.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, Amyris Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.
Etymologies
- torch + wood. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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“And when they did not succeed, on their putting into their boats torchwood with a quantity of sulphur and pitch, the wind on the river suddenly caught their material that they had prepared against the enemy, and blew it into a light.”
“Do you suppose we could find torchwood in that pile yonder?”
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“Christopher Gale to his brother, Nov. 2, 1711, wherein it is said that the Indians stuck the unfortunate prisoner "full of fine small splinters of torchwood, like hogs 'bristles, and so set them gradually on fire.”
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“I just had that same thought!!! the scene where they're being released from the drunk takes, that was some prime Owen lurking .. if he and Jack can both somehow end up on US torchwood .. and ianto. and rhys. and i suppose gwen and tosh can come too. and thats coming from a straight 25 year old guy haha … love me some Cpt Jack and the boys.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘torchwood’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Monovocalics
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Cellar Door
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Learning new words
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The Doctor... Doctor who?
"Just the Doctor."
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See The Wood For The Trees
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