sneezewoodn.
a. A South African timber tree, Ptæroxylon utile; also, the wood of this tree.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of African trees > Southern African
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1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches vi. 219 A saffron-coloured timber, called sneeze-wood, from the effect of its pungent scent when newly cut.
1854 L. Pappe Silva Capensis (1862) 5 Ptæroxylon Utile... From the fact of its producing violent sneezing when sawn or otherwise worked at, it has received the name of Sneeze-wood.
1880 Handbk. S. Afr. (S. W. Silver & Co.) (ed. 3) 130 Melkhout, Olive-wood, and Sneezewood.
b. attributive, as sneezewood spade, sneezewood stump, sneezewood tree, etc.
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1877 J. A. Chalmers Life Tiyo Soga i. 7 The sneezewood spade gave place to the crooked plough-share.
1877 J. A. Chalmers Life Tiyo Soga i. 11 The branches of the sneezewood tree.
1880 C. E. Bessey Bot. 535 Ptæroxylon utile, the Sneezewood Tree of the Cape of Good Hope, furnishes a hard and durable timber.
1887 E. E. Money Little Dutch Maiden (1888) 229 Nodding away on his sneeze-wood stump.
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