horsewood

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English

Etymology

horse +‎ wood

Noun

horsewood (plural horsewoods)

  1. A West Indian mimosoid tree, Zygia latifolia, with showy crimson blossoms.
  2. Tropical shrub or small tree related to citrus, Clausena anisata, with a fetid scent which has been compared to that of horse urine.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “horsewood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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