| 单词 | letterwood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasletterwood letterwood n. [in sense (b) after French bois de lettre (1698 in the passage translated in quot. 1698)] †(a) a medicinal plant (not identified) (obsolete rare); (b) the decorative timber of the South American tree Brosimum guianense (family Moraceae), marked with black spots likened to letters or hieroglyphics; also called snakewood. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of South American trees letterwood1655 kingwood1788 canary wood1822 saouari wooda1832 macaco-wood1835 paddlewood1837 quebracho1839 mustaiba1843 violet-wood1843 taigu wood1868 rauli1874 louro1914 balsa wood1917 palisander1930 1655 W. M. Queens Closet Opened 75 Take Sage two handfuls, one of Tyme..two of Rosemary, one of Letterwood, two of Pennyroyal, [etc.]. 1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 129 Letter-wood (as they call it). 1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 93 This wood is..variegated..with black spots and figures, which have been tortured into a fancied resemblance of letters, from whence the European nations have distinguished it by the name of Letter Wood. 1874 Naut. Mag. Dec. 1016 The handsome Letterwood is of a bright red chestnut colour, with small rhomboidal black patches, mostly isolated, though occasionally concurrent. 1995 S. Price & R. Price Enigma Variations 53 We saw that many of the miniature boxes and other sculptures, executed in highly polished letterwood, had trick openings. < as lemmas |
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