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torchwood

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several tropical American trees of the genus Amyris, having resinous wood that burns with a torchlike flame.
  • noun The wood of any of these trees.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Wood suitable for making torches.
  • noun A tree of the rutaceous genus Amyris, either A. maritima of Florida and the West Indies, or A. balsamifera of the West Indies.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, Amyris Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable Wood used to make torches.
  • noun A tree of the genus Amyris.
  • noun A type of cactus, Cereus heptagonus.
  • noun Wood exhibiting fungal bioluminescence, foxfire.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

torch +‎ wood.

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