spicewood
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of spicewood
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Where alderbushes and spicewood grew, And frogs croaked noisily all night through.
From The Cornflower, and Other Poems by Jean Blewett
Every grateful shrub and bit of sod, the pawpaw leaves and spicewood stems, the half-formed hazel-nuts in fluted sheaths, and even new hay-stacks in the meadows, breathed out their best to the rain.
From Old Caravan Days by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
The spicewood was everywhere in flower in the forests on the bank, and it is said that its appearance indicates a fine soil.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Alexander Philipp Maximilian
But she sipped it as she would have done the decoction of some bitter herb, and frankly confessed that she did not like it as well as the forest substitutes, namely, sassafras, dittany, and spicewood.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
It worked like a charm; the spicewood boughs not only added to the brightness of the scene but filled the whole house with the "sweet smelling savour" of a little boy's love and gratitude.
From The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln by Wayne Whipple
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