fiddlewood

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English

Citharexylum spinosum
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Etymology

fiddle +‎ wood, a corruption of French bois-fidèle (“faithful wood”), so called from its durability.

Noun

fiddlewood (countable and uncountable, plural fiddlewoods)

  1. The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.
  2. Any of these trees.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fiddlewood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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