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ˈmusk-wood
1. A name given to several trees having a musky smell.
a. A low fragrant resinous tree, Trichilia moschata (often called Moschoxylon Swartzii), a native of Jamaica.
b. Species of Guarea, esp. G. Swartzii.
c. The silver-leaved musk-tree, Olearia argophylla, of New South Wales and Tasmania.
1725Sloane Jamaica II. 24 Musk-wood. This tree in respect of its sweet smell I reduce hither. 1794Barham Hortus Amer. 107 Musk-Wood. This is vulgarly and commonly called alligator-wood. 1863Chamb. Encycl. V. 127/1 Guarea grandifolia is called Musk-wood in some of the islands of the West Indies; the bark smelling so strongly of musk, that it may be used as a perfume. 1866Treas. Bot., Musk-wood of Jamaica. Moschoxylum Swartzii; also Guarea Swartzii. —of New South Wales and Tasmania. Eurybia argophylla.
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1891Syd. Soc. Lex., Muskwood, the name of a bark obtained from Syria, and supposed to be the product of the liquid storax tree. It has an agreeable balsamic smell. |