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yellow-wood|ˈjɛləʊwʊd|
Name for various trees and shrubs having yellow wood, or for the wood of any of these. Also attrib.
Some furnish yellow dyes, as Maclura tinctoria (fustic) of the W. Indies and S. America, and the N. American M. aurantiaca (Osage orange), Cladrastis tinctoria (American or Kentucky y.), and Xanthorrhiza apiifolia (shrub yellow-root); others are used for ornamental purposes, as species of Flindersia (white teak) of Queensland and Rhus rhodanthema of New South Wales (both called light y.), Podocarpus Thunbergii (Cape y.) of S. Africa, and Chloroxylon Swietenia (satin-wood) of the E. Indies; others as timber or for other purposes, as Schæfferia frutescens of Florida, Podocarpus elongata (Natal y.) and P. pruinosa (bastard y.) of S. Africa, P. latifolia of the E. Indies, and Xanthoxylon Clava-Herculis and other species (prickly y.) of the W. Indies.
1666J. Davies Hist. Caribbee Isles 43 The Island of S. Croix is the most famous of all the Islands for its abundance in rare and precious Trees. There is one very much esteem'd for its usefulness in Dying: It is called the Yellow-wood from its colour. 1716Petiveriana i. 243 Prickley Yellow wood. 1752Rec. Elgin (New Spald. Club 1903) I. 465 Ilk cwt. brown Brisiell wood, sweet wood, yellow wood or fustic 8d. 1767in Country Life (1973) 7 June 1607/1 A mahogany Commode, with yellow wood ornaments, and Drawers for medals. 1790,1801[see geelhout]. 1812Brackenridge Views Louisiana (1814) 59 One very beautiful [forest tree], bois jaune, or yellow wood: by some called the mock orange. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 122 Oxleya xanthoxyla, a large tree, is the Yellow-wood of New South Wales. 1834Pringle Afr. Sk. vi. 219 A tree greatly resembling the cedar in its external aspect,..termed..geelhout, or yellow-wood (taxus elongata). 1868Rep. U.S. Comm. Agric. (1869) 199 Yellow wood (Cladrastis tinctoria) is a western tree. 1871H. H. Dugmore Reminisc. Albany Settler 27 Plain dinners and hearty suppers,..served up in tin dishes on yellow wood benches. 1875Ure's Dict. Arts II. 527 Fustic, or Yellow Wood. The old fustic of the English dyer. It is the wood of the Morus tinctoria. 1888E. E. Money Dutch Maiden 238 The tree, a huge yellow-wood, stood at the edge of the bush. 1915Rider Haggard Holy Flower iv. 63 It..rolled under a great yellow-wood chest. 1952G. M. Mills First Ladies of Cape 42 Cupboards..were usually framed by stinkwood and yellow-wood doors. 1981N. & Q. June 193/2 The most important furnishings of the groote kamer were a yellow-wood cupboard and a stink⁓wood four-poster bed. 1985New Yorker 18 Mar. 65/2 Old yellowwood and stinkwood chests. |