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Pisonia obtusata

Porkwood \Pork"wood`\, n. (Bot.) The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree ( Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood.

Pisonia obtusata

Blolly \Blol"ly\, n. (Bot.)

  1. A shrub or small tree of southern Florida and the West Indies ( Pisonia obtusata) with smooth oval leaves and a hard, 10-ribbed fruit.

  2. The rubiaceous shrub Chicocca racemosa, of the same region.