Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A southern African deciduous tree (Ocotea bullata) having wood with an unpleasant odor.
- noun The hard, heavy wood of this tree, used in cabinetwork.
- noun Any of several trees having wood with an unpleasant odor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of several trees with fetid wood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the
Fœtidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South AfricanOcotea bullata .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several unrelated
trees whosewood has an unpleasantsmell , but especially Ocotea bullata, a south African tree yielding hard, heavy wood
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Examples
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Lower down are unspoilt well watered wooded valleys containing a variety of microhabitats and trees such as white stinkwood Celtis africana, wild peach Kiggelaria africana, tree fuchsia Halleria lucida, sagewood Buddleja salvifolia and orange thorn Cassinopsis ilicifolia.
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Approximately 40% of the forest is medium-rich to rich mixed forest, including key species such as red stinkwood Prunus africana, nationally threatened Newtonia buchanani, Symphonia globulifera, Chrysophyllum pruniforme, Podocarpus spp. and Strombosia scheffleri.
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We took a path up the Berg among groves of stinkwood and essenwood, where a failing stream made an easy route.
Prester John 2005
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Sticks of stinkwood mixed in with our regular firewood drove us out of the room another evening.
Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005
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There were tall timber-trees — yellowwood, sneezewood, essenwood, stinkwood — and the ground was carpeted with thick grass and ferns.
Prester John 2005
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The trophy awarded to Mr Mandela had been made of yellowwood and stinkwood.
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The trophy awarded to Mr Mandela had been made of yellowwood and stinkwood.
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The trophy awarded to Mr Mandela had been made of yellowwood and stinkwood.
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He looked at her across the polished stinkwood breakfast table with its encrustation of - H silver and exquisite bone china, and he sighed again.
The Sound of Thunder Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1966
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Max went to the stinkwood desk which filled one corner of the room and picked up a sheaf of papers.
When the Lion Feeds Smith, Wilbur 1964
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