Etymology
Origin of snakewood
Example Sentences
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And for the lady of devastating chic and ophidian fascination, who looks forward to penthouses rather than backward at palazzos, is the Cadillac-Fleetwood Art Moderne, a sleek transformable cabriolet in aluminum, black, copper, snakewood.
From Time Magazine Archive
His aunt said goodbye to him and presented Henry Moeller with an umbrella of purple silk with a carved snakewood handle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Played with no boundaries, it is a matter of composition rubber balls, mallets of snakewood made in Manhattan.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was well, but neatly, dressed, and had hooked to his wrist a thin snakewood cane attached to a crook handle.
From The Man Who Knew by Wallace, Edgar
Several species of Strychnos are considered infallible remedies for snake bites; hence are known as snakewood.
From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by Saunders, William
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