milkwood

[ milk-wood ]

/ ˈmɪlkˌwʊd /

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any of various trees having a milky juice, as Pseudomedia spuria, of Jamaica.

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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

First recorded in 1860–65; milk + wood¹