Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of two Australian trees, Eucalyptus Doratoxylon in the southwest, and Acacia Doratoxylon in the interior, or the wood of the same, sought by the natives for spear-shafts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An Australian tree (
Acacia Doratoxylon ), and its tough wood, used by the natives for spears.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Australia The
erect woody evergreen shrub Kunzea ericifolia,endemic toWestern Australia . - noun Australia The shrub Acacia doratoxylon.
- noun Australia The flowering
vine Pandorea doratoxylon. - noun Australia The eucalypt Eucalyptus doratoxylon.
Etymologies
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From spear + wood; named for the use made of the wood by Australian Aborigines to make spear shafts.
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Examples
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So thick with the Eastland spearwood was that rampart of renown;
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Cooroo, over grassy country, with spearwood thickets intervening.
Explorations in Australia, Illustrated, John Forrest 1882
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So thick with the Eastland spearwood was that rampart of renown;
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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