Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small handsome round-headed deciduous tree (
Cladrastis lutea ) having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye; also calledyellowwood .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small handsome roundheaded deciduous tree having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye
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Examples
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My chest weighed two tons, was eight cubits in height and six in breadth, had metal clasps, and was hewn out of gopherwood.
Amy-Erin Blakely's chest and the dangers of being too ridiculously good-looking Alexandra Petri 2010
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It is supposedly the only place in the world where theTorreya taxifolia , the gopherwood tree, grows.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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My hibernation sarcophagus is lined with beaver, and has tasteful gopherwood accents.
This Just in: I Break for Holidays! BikeSnobNYC 2008
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Not only was there a lot of lightning and thunder, we had enough rain to the point that I was checking the internet for the prices of gopherwood.
August 2005 2005
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VIRAG: Number two on the other hand, she of the cherry rouge and coiffeuse white, whose hair owes not a little to our tribal elixir of gopherwood, is in walking costume and tightly staysed by her sit, I should opine.
Ulysses 2003
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VIRAG: Number two on the other hand, she of the cherry rouge and coiffeuse white, whose hair owes not a little to our tribal elixir of gopherwood, is in walking costume and tightly staysed by her sit, I should opine.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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The next morning he read on the bottom of one page, "When Noah was one hundred and twenty years old he took unto himself a wife, who was" -- then turning the page -- "140 cubits long -- 40 cubits wide, built of gopherwood -- and covered with pitch inside and out."
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It must be made of gopherwood pulp to have held up so long.
Planet Atheism 2008
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It must be made of gopherwood pulp to have held up so long.
Pharyngula 2008
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It must be made of gopherwood pulp to have held up so long.
Pharyngula 2008
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