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• (n.) A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseae).
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tough, heavy, elastic, straight-grained wood obtained from several different trees of the custard-apple family (Annonaceae). True lancewood, Oxandra ...
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<botany> A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseae). Australian lancewood, a myrtaceous tree (Backhousia Australis). ... Source: Websters D...
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Lance'wood` noun (Botany) A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood,
Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (
Anonaseæ ).
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Lancewood is the timber of certain trees of the genus Guatteria. Coachbuilders used to make the shafts of traps from the main stems of the West Indian tree Guatteria virgata, which was renowned for its strength and elasticity.
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Lancewood is the popular name of the wood of several trees of the order Anonaceae, as of the Oxandra virgata, a native of Jamaica, Duguetia quitarensis, a native of Cuba and Guiana, which possesses in a high degree the qualities of toughness and elasticity, and was on this account extremely well adapted for the shafts of light carriages, and all th...
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[
n] - durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree 2. [n] - source of most of the lancewood of commerce
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tough elastic wood imported chiefly from the West Indies, used for carriage-shafts, fishing-rods, cabinet-work, etc.
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lancewood tree noun source of most of the lancewood of commerce
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Lancewood (Oxandra lanceolata) Common Name(s): Lancewood, West Indian Lancewood Scientific Name: Oxandra lanceolata (syn. Uvaria lanceolata) Distribution: Primarily the Caribbean, though present in Central and South America as well Tree Size: 50 ft (15 m) tall, 1-1.5 ft (.3-.5 m) trunk diameter Average Dried Weight...
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