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ANGIOSPERMOUS YELLOWWOOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various angiospermous trees having yellow wood
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("angiospermous yellowwood" is a kind of...):
yellowwood; yellowwood tree (any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "angiospermous yellowwood"):
bow wood; Maclura pomifera; mock orange; osage orange (small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and an inedible fruit that resembles an orange; its hard orange-colored wood used for bows by Native Americans; frequently planted as boundary hedge)
Cladrastis kentukea; Cladrastis lutea; gopherwood; Kentucky yellowwood (small handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye)
satinwood; West Indian satinwood; Zanthoxylum flavum (West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily wood)
Australian sumac; Rhodosphaera rhodanthema; Rhus rhodanthema (evergreen of Australia yielding a dark yellow wood)
sweetleaf; Symplocus tinctoria (small yellowwood tree of southern United States having small fragrant white flowers; leaves and bark yield a yellow dye)
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