milkwood
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of milkwood
Example Sentences
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Arthur Koo-ekka Pambegan Jr’s Flying Fox Story Place, for example, is a collection of carved milkwood sculptures in polymer paint and traditional ochre pigments; arresting in its size, beauty and narrative.
From The Guardian • Jun. 6, 2013
All the vegetation is matted and interwoven, only the topmost branches of the milkwood escaping from the clinging, aspiring vines.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
Sapium, sā′pi-um, n. a genus of apetalous plants belonging to the Euphorbiace�, including the Jamaica milkwood or gum-tree, &c.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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