sweetwoodn.
/ˈswiːtwʊd/ A name for various trees and shrubs, chiefly lauraceous, of the West Indies and tropical America, some of which furnish valuable timber; also the timber itself. black sweetwood n. Strychnodaphne (Ocotea) floribunda. loblolly sweetwood n. Oreodaphne (Ocotea) Leucoxylon; also Sciadophyllum Jacquini (N.O. Araliaceæ). mountain sweetwood n. Acrodiclidium jamaicense. pepper sweetwood n. (or yellow sweetwood) Nectandra sanguinea. Rio Grande sweetwood n. Oreodaphne Leucoxylon. shrubby sweetwood n. the genus Amyris (N.O. Rutaceæ or Amyridaceæ). timber sweetwood n. Oreodaphne (Nectandra) exaltata, N. leucantha, and Acrodiclidium jamaicense. white sweetwood n. Nectandra leucantha and N. sanguinea. The name is also given to Croton eleuteria of the West Indies and Bahamas, which yields cascarilla bark. (See Treasury Bot. and Miller Plant-n.)lowland sweetwood: see first element.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > of South America or West Indies
sweetwood1607
mastic1657
acajou1666
bastard locust tree1670
bastard locust tree1670
alligator wood1696
muskwood1696
lancewood1697
rodwood1716
cog-wood1725
soapwood1733
down tree?1740
pigeon plum1743
break-axe tree1756
horse-wood1756
loblolly whitewood1756
Spanish elm1756
trumpet-tree1756
ahuehuete1778
ocote1787
locust tree1795
Madeira wood1796
peroba1813
roble1814
louro1816
cecropia1824
purple heart1825
wallaba1825
trumpet-wood1836
gumbo-limbo1837
poui1838
quebracho1839
snake-wood1843
yacca1843
horseflesh wood1851
necklace tree1858
Honduras rosewood1860
turanira1862
softwood1864
wattle-wood1864
balsa tree1866
primavera1871
rauli1874
lemon-wood1879
wheel-tree1882
Spanish stopper1883
gurgeon-stopper1884
pinkwood-tree1884
stopper1884
sloth-tree1885
imbaubaa1893
Spanish cedar1907
amarant1909
Parana pine1916
imbuya1919
mastic-bully1920
banak1921
timbo1924
becuiba1934
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other woods of West Indies and Central America
guaiacum1533
guaiac1558
lignum vitae1594
sweetwood1607
green ebony1665
princewoodc1665
alligator wood1696
pimento wood1712
greenheart1719
mahoea1726
galimeta-wood1756
determa1769
bullet-wood1843
cocobolo1849
lancewood1858
silver-balli1858
yari-yari1858
Honduras rosewood1860
sabicu1866
amarant1909
1607 in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) 53/2 The soil..covered with good oak, ash, walnut tree, poplar, pine, sweet woods.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia 197 Many huge bone-fires of sweet-wood.
?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii VII.–VIII. Table 71 Mexican sweet Wood... This is a pale coloured Wood with brownish Clouds, it has a very fragrant Smell especially if chewed.
1721 Act 8 Geo. I c. 12 §2.
1811–12 W. J. Titford Sketches Hortus Botanicus Americanus Expl. Plate vii, p. ii White Sweet~ wood (laurus leucoxylon).
1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 623 The wood of O[reodaphne] exaltata is yellow, very hard and durable, and is called Sweetwood, in Jamaica.
1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 491/1 The compound decoction, formerly known as the Decoction of Sweet Woods.
Compounds
C1. attributive, as sweetwood tree.
Π
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 157 The Sweet Wood-tree.
C2.
sweetwood bark n. cascarilla bark.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > medicinal barks > other medicinal barks
oak bark1579
cascarilla1686
false Winter's bark1722
malambo bark1816
matias bark1840
sweetwood bark1846
magnolia1857
cascara sagrada1879
cuprea bark1884
sacred bark1891
1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 279 The plant is scarcely known here [i.e. in the Bahamas] by the name of Cascarilla, but is commonly called Sweet Wood Bark.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1607