GUMWOOD

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum

Synonyms:

gum; gumwood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("gumwood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gumwood"):

hazelwood; red gum; satin walnut; sweet gum (reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture)

Holonyms ("gumwood" is a substance of...):

gum; gum tree (any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum)