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The wood of a South African tree. See Neishout.

A showy leguminous plant (Calliandra purpurea) of the West Indies. The flowers have long tassels of purple stamens.

The sorrel tree.

A shrubby species of wormwood (Artemisia Abrotanum) having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.

An Australian tree (Acacia Doratoxylon), and its tough wood, used by the natives for spears.

An American shrub (Lindera Benzoin), the bark of which has a spicy taste and odor; -- called also Benjamin, wild allspice, and fever bush.

The mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia).

A tall tree (Simaruba amara) growing in tropical America. It is one of the trees which yields quassia.

A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the Foetidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.

The true laurel (Laurus nobilis.)

Firewood cut into billets of a certain length. [Obs.] [Eng.]

The fragrant and beautiful wood of a North African tree (Callitris quadrivalvis), formerly called Thuja articulata. The tree is of the Cedar family, and furnishes a balsamic resin called sandarach. Rev. xviii. 12.

Same as Toon.

The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, A. Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.

Wood so decayed as to serve for tinder; spunk, or punk.

uit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also snakewood, and trumpet tree.

The beautiful rose-colored striped wood of a Brazilian tree (Physocalymna floribunda), much used by cabinetmakers for inlaying. Queensland tulipwood, the variegated wood of an Australian sapindaceous tree (Harpullia pendula). J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).

w among large trees; coppice; underbrush; -- formerly used in the plural. Shrubs and underwoods look well enough while they grow within the shade of oaks and cedars. Addison.

An Australian tree (Pittosporum bicolor); also, its wood, used in making waddies.

A kind of fine pottery, the most remarkable being what is called jasper, either white, or colored throughout the body, and capable of being molded into the most delicate forms, so that fine and minute bas-reliefs like cameos were made of it, fit even for being set as jewels.