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The bass (Tilia) or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree. All the bowls were made of basswood, White and polished very smoothly. Longfellow.

An Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland.

A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian.

A West Indian tree (Picræna excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.

A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia. Balfour.

A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.

The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making ornaments.

The wood of the box (Buxus).

The wood of the oriental Cæsalpinia Sapan; -- so called before the discovery of America.

Srubs and bushes upon which animals browse.

Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.

buttonball tree, and, in some parts of the United States, sycamore. The California buttonwood is P. racemosa.

A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel- brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood.

Logwood.

See Barwood.

A West Indian tree (Turpinia occidentalis) of the family Staphyleaceæ.

Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel. Johnson.

A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musical instruments.

Brushwood; coppice. Macaulay.

The wood of the cork oak. [Obs.]