Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tropical African tree (Erythrophleum suaveolens) in the pea family, having bark that yields a poison and wood that is used for construction.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Alteration of earlier sassywood : sassy, sasswood, as in sassy bark, sasswood bark (of West African origin; akin to Twi `ɔ-sésé, plane tree Ewe séséwú, timber tree, and Ga (Niger-Congo language of Ghana) sèsè, kind of tree) + wood.]
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