The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stinkwood \Stink"wood`\, n. (Bot.) A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the F[oe]tidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.
Wiktionary
n. Any of several unrelated trees whose wood has an unpleasant smell, but especially (taxlink Ocotea bullata species noshow=1), a south African tree yielding hard, heavy wood
Wikipedia
Stinkwood is the common name for a number of trees or shrubs which have wood with an unpleasant odour, including:
- Celtis africana ( White stinkwood) – native to South Africa
- Celtis mildbraedii (Natal white stinkwood, red-fruited white-stinkwood) – native to Tropical Africa
- Celtis timorensis – native to south and southeast Asia
- Coprosma foetidissima; in New Zealand and extends south to the Auckland Islands
- Coprosma putida – endemic to Lord Howe Island
- Foetidia mauritiana – native to Reunion and Mauritius
- Gyrocarpus americanus, pantropical tree in Hernandiaceae family
- Jacksonia furcellata ( Grey stinkwood) – native to Australia
- Jacksonia sternbergiana ( Green stinkwood) – native to Australia
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Ocotea bullata ( Black stinkwood, true stinkwood) – native to South Africa
- other species of Ocotea, e.g. Ocotea foetens (Til, tilo), native to Macaronesia
- Prunus africana ( Red stinkwood) – native to montane Subsaharan Africa
- Zieria arborescens – native to Australia
Usage examples of "stinkwood".
We took a path up the Berg among groves of stinkwood and essenwood, where a failing stream made an easy route.
Nor was the shuffling feet-dragging gait with which he crossed the thick Bokhara carpet to the stinkwood desk.
Before him on the stinkwood desk stood a crystal glass and a decanter.
She was dizzy from the blows and she fell against the heavy stinkwood table.
There was a sigh of approval from all of the company as a fragrant cloud of steam rose to the high stinkwood beams of the ceiling.
The long central table and all the twenty chairs around it were of stinkwood, one of the most beautifully grained timbers of Africa, lovingly carved by the skilled Malay slave cabinet-makers.
Both Tom and Dorian refrained from more than a single glance at the mysterious object that lay in the centre of the stinkwood table between them.
She had a sniping rifle on a tripod under their tented tarp, hidden in the shade of a stinkwood tree.
Sticks of stinkwood mixed in with our regular firewood drove us out of the room another evening.
There were camphor trees and teaks and African cedars and red stinkwood trees, and here and there a dark green cloud of leaves mushroomed above the forest canopy.
South Africa where they grow naturally profuse, blue-tongued exotic orange protrusions from the deep purple-green bill, silently mating there among the native white pear, the red ivory, black stinkwood, and umzimbiti.
This must mean water at last, for I had never found yellowwoods and stinkwoods growing far from a stream.
All their faces were upturned towards the magnificent carved pulpit of polished black stinkwood in which stood the most reverend Tromp Bierman, moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa.
The moment Mason and Dixon arrive, up in the guest Suite sorting out the Stockings, which have come ashore all a-jumble, admiring the black Stinkwood Armoire with the silver fittings, they are greeted, or rather, accosted, by a certain Bonk, a Functionary of the V.
He saw Max take two quicksteps to the stinkwood desk in the corner, pull open the top drawer and drop his hand into it.