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ˈblack-wood, blackwood1
a. A name applied in different parts of the world to various trees and their timber: in New South Wales, Acacia melanoxylon; East Indies, Dalbergia latifolia; St. Helena, Melhania melanoxylon; West Australia, Acacia penninervis. (Miller English Plant-names.)
1631Speed Prosp. Fam. Parts World 43 Cedars, Palmetoes, Black-wood, White-wood. 1693Phil. Trans. XVII. 621 The..Blackwood of those of Barbados. 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 381 They carry to China great quantities of blackwood, which is worked up there into furniture, &c. 1841Elphinstone Hist. India I. 9 Sissoo (or blackwood trees). 1883M. E. Braddon Gold. Calf xi. 144 The pretty carved Indian tea-table—a gem in Bombay blackwood.
b. = black growth (see black a. 19). Also attrib. U.S.
1812F. A. Michaux Hist. Arbres de l'Amérique II. 220 On désigne ces terreins sous le nom de Black wood lands, terreins à essence noire. 1848Bartlett Dict. Amer. 33 Black wood, hemlock, pine, spruce, and fir. Maine. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 420 Black Wood is, in the Northern States, used as a generic term for the evergreens, hemlock, pine, spruce, and fir. |