What is "balsawood"

Usage examples of "balsawood".

One morning in their bedroom Diane paints on make-your-man-crazy red nail polish and Corde watches the color go on but what he thinks of is the smell, which reminds him of the dope he brushed on the balsawood airplanes as a boy to stiffen the paper wings.

No contest this time, the Snow Cruiser ripped off the vertical and horizontal stabilizers as if they were a balsawood tail on a model airplane.

There was a sound of balsawood crunching and the Blue Monkey screamed like his namesake.

And spread out before him on the food tray was the balsawood framework of a model airplane wing, to which Moore was attaching tissue paper covering.