stavewood

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English

Etymology

stave +‎ wood

Noun

stavewood (usually uncountable, plural stavewoods)

  1. Simaruba amara, a tall tree of tropical America, one of the trees that yield quassia.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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