crabwood

[ krab-wood ]

noun

Origin of crabwood

1
First recorded in 1840–50; crab2 + wood1

Words Nearby crabwood

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How to use crabwood in a sentence

  • The Indians have a path alongside of it, through the forest, where prodigious crabwood trees grow.

    Wanderings in South America | Charles Waterton
  • crabwood (Gymnanthes lucida) is known chiefly by the fine canes made of it.

    American Forest Trees | Henry H. Gibson

British Dictionary definitions for crabwood

crabwood

/ (ˈkræbˌwʊd) /


noun
  1. a tropical American meliaceous tree, Carapa guianensis

  2. the wood of this tree, used for construction

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