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n. 1 ''Mimusops zeyheri'', an evergreen tree of Africa. 2 (rfdef: English)
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Milkwood may refer to:
Milkwood was an Anglo-Canadian rock band formed in Toronto in March 1969 by former Influence guitarist Louis McKelvey with future Celine Dion backing singer Mary Lou Gauthier and English multi-instrumentalist Malcolm Tomlinson, who’d worked previously with future Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre in The Motivation, The Penny Peeps and Gethsemane.
Usage examples of "milkwood".
The milkwood blazed as she hurtled, seemed almost to fly, sailing down toward Tek and the wyvern king.
Still piping her warcry, the amber filly dashed across their jostling backs, pounding hard for Lynex, milkwood brand flaming in her teeth.
He staggered low across the canopy of the milkwood grove, an erratic series of plummets and heaves.
He turned northward, toward the Hallow Hills and the cliff beneath the milkwood groves where the heart of the battle had raged, certain that soon or late, if he followed this course, he would rejoin Tek.
The scent of milkwood blooms wafted all around her, their aroma heavy and all-pervading.
She felt the tingle of the milkwood buds she had eaten, and the resinous smoke she had inhaled, suffusing her blood.
Lell wheeled unsteadily, spied the gryphon tercel floating half submerged in the clear surface of the mere, which was littered with milkwood flowers, she saw.
Most of the slain lay beneath the milkwood cliffs, heaped upon the wyvern shelves where fighting had been fiercest.
Here shafts of the sun seldom penetrated the canopy of leaves, except in fields such as the patch old Zacharias had cleared amongst the sedge of the marsh on the fringe of the forest His small hut, roughly constructed of tambuki grass and creosoted African wattle poles, huddled inside the hedge of branches surrounding the clearing, under a spreading strangler fig and a red milkwood tree that had grown old and gnarled together.
With a last prodigious effort she rose on her hind legs and tore the young milkwood from the soil.
A tree pipit took fright when it saw him and flew erratically to the top of the milkwood entangled with the strangler fig.
The purple-crested loerie seemed to follow him down the mountain, and he watched it bounding along a branch of a lone milkwood before it took off in a long glide and disappeared from sight.
She had always carried about her that spice fragrance of the magical milkwood pods.
Zod the singer to husband as her second mate, while the unicorns still lived in the Hallow Hills by the sacred well, in and around the milkwood groves that now are called the Wyvern Wood.
Halla left the wyrm beside the shelves and pools, and sprang off through the milkwood trees, traversing meadow and dale and grove to gather the unicorns to come parley with the wyrms.