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yellowwood

gopherwood \gopherwood\ n. A small handsome round-headed deciduous tree ( Cladrastis lutea) having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye; also called yellowwood.

Syn: Kentucky yellowwood, Cladrastis lutea, Cladrastis kentukea, yellowwood.

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yellowwood

n. 1 Any of the tree genus (taxlink Cladrastis genus noshow=1). 2 (taxlink Flindersia xanthoxyla species noshow=1), a tall rainforest tree of Australia. 3 The osage orange tree. 4 Any of the conifer genus ''Podocarpus''. 5 (taxlink Sarcomelicope simplicifolia species noshow=1), a small rainforest tree of Australia. 6 (taxlink Zanthoxylum brachyacanthum species noshow=1), (vern: thorny yellowwood), of Australia

WordNet
yellowwood
  1. n. yellow-colored wood of any of various yellowwood trees

  2. any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract [syn: yellowwood tree]

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Others are scattered on the mounds and in the meads adjoining, where may be collected some heath still in bloom, prunella, hypericum, white yarrow, some heads of red clover, some beautiful buttercups, three bits of blue veronica, wild chamomile, tall yellowwood, pink centaury, succory, dock cress, daisies, fleabane, knapweed, and delicate blue harebells.

Native silverleaf and yellowwood, imported oaks and paper birch towered to give shade, and the high wall that surrounded the estate was a shape beneath mounds of rose and wisteria.