whitewoodn.

Brit.

/ˈwʌɪtwʊd/, U.S.

/ˈ(h)waɪtˌwʊd/

Forms: see white adj. and n. and wood n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., wood n.¹

Etymology: < white adj. + wood n.¹

1. Wood that is whitish or very pale in colour; any of various types of such wood. Also: any of numerous trees producing such wood.The main commercial timbers known as whitewood are that of Liriodendron tulipifera (in the United States) and that of the Norway spruce, Picea abies (in Europe).Among the many trees to which the name has been applied are the tulip tree, Liriodendron tulipifera, and American basswood, Tilia americana, of North America; several trees of the Caribbean, including wild cinnamon, Canella alba, and members of the genus Tabebuia (family Bignoniaceae); and several Australian trees, including Atalaya glauca (family Sapindaceae), Lagunaria patersonia (family Malvaceae), and Polyscias elegans (family Araliaceae).

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > [noun] > names applied to various types of trees or shrubs

whitewood1562

yellowwood1583

lightwood1597

redwood1693

hoop-wood1756

stave-wood1778

whistle-wood1825

whip-cropa1850

pepperwood1858

white tree1863

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > woods of specific colour or dye-woods

red sandalwood?c1510

redwooda1533

whitewood1562

red sanderswood1598

sapan wood1598

peach woodc1638

Campeachy wood1652

coral-wood1693

Nicaragua wood1696

cam-wood1699

Guinea wood1722

Nicaragua1756

barwood1788

ruby wood1843

sap pan1874

1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. lx^v, in Bulwarke of Defence But the white wood is sweet and most excellent in operacion, and is Lignum sanctum, the holy wood.

1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde lix. f. 95^v The propertie of which trees I coulde not otherwyse learne, sauyng onely it commeth to my remembraunce of whyte woodde [Fr. d'vn bois blanc].

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. ix. xvii. 1799 To such kinds [of trees] as were vnknowne to vs (which were the most part) we also gave name; such as were known retayning their olde names: as Cedars, Palmetoes, Black-wood, White-wood, Yellow-wood [etc.].

1683 J. Poyntz Present Prospect Tobago 29 The White-wood is a Tree of that singular vertue, the worm will seldom touch it.

1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 184 The low Country-men sometimes call it Dutch Arbel, but the common Name among them is White-wood.

1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. xix. 499 The Bass or White Wood is a tree of a middling size, and the whitest and softest wood that grows.

1858 O. W. Holmes Deacon's Masterpiece in Atlantic Monthly Sept. 497/1 The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese.

1899 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 7 Oct. 19884/2 The whitewoods are dyed to the required shade.

1965 Marshall (Mich.) Evening Chron. 10 Sept. 8/6 The flooring is all wide plank whitewood.

2004 P. Hymers New Home Builder xii. 237 Wood stains come in a variety of colours and finishes that can be applied to ordinary whitewood or redwood.

a. The sapwood of a tree, which typically is paler than the heartwood; = alburnum n.

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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [noun] > young wood or alburnum

sapc1374

body?1523

wood?1523

alburnum1664

whitewood1668

blea1736

softwood1751

sap-wood1791

alburn1864

included sapwood1933

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > wood from specific part of tree

heartwood?1575

wood1600

alburnum1664

whitewood1668

sap-wood1791

redwood1825

1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 863 When the Tree decays, the White-wood soon withers.

1771 Scots Mag. Sept. 463/2 It is proper to split the tree, cutting away the outer white wood.

1776 W. Kenrick et al. tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals V. 275 I would not make use of the perfect wood, called the Heart, and from which I had exactly taken up the sappy part of white wood.

1812 P. Graham Agric. Surv. Stirling 40 The oaks are almost entire; the white wood, as it is called, or the outermost circles of the tree, only are decayed.

1878 Indian Forester Apr. 273 Its [a sample of wood taken from a Sandal tree] aspect is curious, neither heartwood nor whitewood shewing any lines.

1955 Northeastern Logger Feb. 15/3 The small brown hearts are unusually small. The high yield of white wood from these..logs is what buyers of logs want.

2008 D. Johnston & S. Gibson Green from Ground Up xii. 235 White wood is sap wood from the exterior of the tree, only heartwood is red.

b. Sapwood or other wood with a low resin content, as preferred in various manufacturing processes. Now rare.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > non-resinous wood

whitewood1700

1700 C. Leigh Nat. Hist. Lancs. 80 The Spar and Coke-Ore are about equal Value, and are fluxed with white Wood in Furnaces for that purpose.

1785 G. Adams Ess. Electr. (ed. 2) viii. 161 Place a piece of very dry white wood between the balls of the universal discharger.

1807 tr. J.-A.-C. Chaptal Chem. Arts & Manufactures IV. 143 Charcoal of white wood is employed in the making of powder.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 348 The workman breaks these pieces of pots on his anvil, and mixes the pieces with charcoal of white wood.

1911 O. Guttmann in G. Lunge Techn. Methods Chem. Anal. II. i. 487 It [sc. wood meal] must be prepared from white wood free from resin.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (in sense 1).

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1589 Edinb. Test. XXI. f. 88, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Quhite wod Thrie buistis of quhyt wod cambes price xxxviij s.

1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 183 On the level Ground of this Farm..grows several of these White-wood Trees [viz. poplars, etc.].

1765 Newton (Lincs.) Enclosure Act 13 Ash or other white wood rails.

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. ii. ii. 492 The granary floor to be laid with inch-and-quarter white-wood battens, dressed and jointed.

1860 Illinois Teacher 6 110 His observations he recorded on white-wood planks with a pencil.

1908 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 133 The lard, the apples, the butter, and the cheese, in beautiful whitewood barrels.

1944 F. Clune Red Heart 51 Colson noted the grey box and whitewood trees became sparser.

1998 Timber Grower Autumn 27/1 British whitewood sawlogs will double over the next 15 years.

C2.

whitewood bark the aromatic bark of the tree Canella winterana; a powder made from this, used originally in medicinal preparations and later in perfumery; = canella bark n. at canella n. 2b.

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1833 L. M. Day Bot. Family Physician 13 Take of..whitewood bark, four ounces; orange peel, one ounce; cinnamon, half an ounce; all bruised, and infused in three quarts of good wine.

1913 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 26 Dec. 10/4 Sick headache was forced to become a well one when brought in contact with whitewood bark soused in whisky.

2000 A. Dalby Dangerous Tastes 152 ‘Whitewood bark’ or ‘Winter's bark’..is used in perfume sachets and in potpourris.

whitewood cedar Caribbean any of several trees of the tropical American genus Tabebuia (family Bignoniaceae) which provide useful timber; esp. T. pallida.

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1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 789 Whitewood-cedar, Tecoma Leucoxylon.

1920 Novitates Zoologicae 28 395 The larva..feeds on what is locally known as the Whitewood cedar, Tecoma leucoxylon (Bignoniaceae), an abundant tree in the islands of St. Vincent, Bequia and St. Lucia.

2011 Barbados Advocate 17 Apr. 9/5 We saw major decay of the college buildings—broken guttering, ferns all over the walls,..and three-foot high whitewood cedars growing out of the surviving top gutters.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	whitewood
释义	whitewoodn. Brit. /ˈwʌɪtwʊd/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪtˌwʊd/ Forms: see white adj. and n. and wood n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., wood n.¹ Etymology: < white adj. + wood n.¹ 1. Wood that is whitish or very pale in colour; any of various types of such wood. Also: any of numerous trees producing such wood.The main commercial timbers known as whitewood are that of Liriodendron tulipifera (in the United States) and that of the Norway spruce, Picea abies (in Europe).Among the many trees to which the name has been applied are the tulip tree, Liriodendron tulipifera, and American basswood, Tilia americana, of North America; several trees of the Caribbean, including wild cinnamon, Canella alba, and members of the genus Tabebuia (family Bignoniaceae); and several Australian trees, including Atalaya glauca (family Sapindaceae), Lagunaria patersonia (family Malvaceae), and Polyscias elegans (family Araliaceae). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > [noun] > names applied to various types of trees or shrubs whitewood1562 yellowwood1583 lightwood1597 redwood1693 hoop-wood1756 stave-wood1778 whistle-wood1825 whip-cropa1850 pepperwood1858 white tree1863 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > woods of specific colour or dye-woods red sandalwood?c1510 redwooda1533 whitewood1562 red sanderswood1598 sapan wood1598 peach woodc1638 Campeachy wood1652 coral-wood1693 Nicaragua wood1696 cam-wood1699 Guinea wood1722 Nicaragua1756 barwood1788 ruby wood1843 sap pan1874 1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. lx^v, in Bulwarke of Defence But the white wood is sweet and most excellent in operacion, and is Lignum sanctum, the holy wood. 1568 T. Hacket tr. A. Thevet New Found Worlde lix. f. 95^v The propertie of which trees I coulde not otherwyse learne, sauyng onely it commeth to my remembraunce of whyte woodde [Fr. d'vn bois blanc]. 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. ix. xvii. 1799 To such kinds [of trees] as were vnknowne to vs (which were the most part) we also gave name; such as were known retayning their olde names: as Cedars, Palmetoes, Black-wood, White-wood, Yellow-wood [etc.]. 1683 J. Poyntz Present Prospect Tobago 29 The White-wood is a Tree of that singular vertue, the worm will seldom touch it. 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 184 The low Country-men sometimes call it Dutch Arbel, but the common Name among them is White-wood. 1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. xix. 499 The Bass or White Wood is a tree of a middling size, and the whitest and softest wood that grows. 1858 O. W. Holmes Deacon's Masterpiece in Atlantic Monthly Sept. 497/1 The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese. 1899 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 7 Oct. 19884/2 The whitewoods are dyed to the required shade. 1965 Marshall (Mich.) Evening Chron. 10 Sept. 8/6 The flooring is all wide plank whitewood. 2004 P. Hymers New Home Builder xii. 237 Wood stains come in a variety of colours and finishes that can be applied to ordinary whitewood or redwood. 2. a. The sapwood of a tree, which typically is paler than the heartwood; = alburnum n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [noun] > young wood or alburnum sapc1374 body?1523 wood?1523 alburnum1664 whitewood1668 blea1736 softwood1751 sap-wood1791 alburn1864 included sapwood1933 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > wood from specific part of tree heartwood?1575 wood1600 alburnum1664 whitewood1668 sap-wood1791 redwood1825 1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 863 When the Tree decays, the White-wood soon withers. 1771 Scots Mag. Sept. 463/2 It is proper to split the tree, cutting away the outer white wood. 1776 W. Kenrick et al. tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals V. 275 I would not make use of the perfect wood, called the Heart, and from which I had exactly taken up the sappy part of white wood. 1812 P. Graham Agric. Surv. Stirling 40 The oaks are almost entire; the white wood, as it is called, or the outermost circles of the tree, only are decayed. 1878 Indian Forester Apr. 273 Its [a sample of wood taken from a Sandal tree] aspect is curious, neither heartwood nor whitewood shewing any lines. 1955 Northeastern Logger Feb. 15/3 The small brown hearts are unusually small. The high yield of white wood from these..logs is what buyers of logs want. 2008 D. Johnston & S. Gibson Green from Ground Up xii. 235 White wood is sap wood from the exterior of the tree, only heartwood is red. b. Sapwood or other wood with a low resin content, as preferred in various manufacturing processes. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > non-resinous wood whitewood1700 1700 C. Leigh Nat. Hist. Lancs. 80 The Spar and Coke-Ore are about equal Value, and are fluxed with white Wood in Furnaces for that purpose. 1785 G. Adams Ess. Electr. (ed. 2) viii. 161 Place a piece of very dry white wood between the balls of the universal discharger. 1807 tr. J.-A.-C. Chaptal Chem. Arts & Manufactures IV. 143 Charcoal of white wood is employed in the making of powder. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 348 The workman breaks these pieces of pots on his anvil, and mixes the pieces with charcoal of white wood. 1911 O. Guttmann in G. Lunge Techn. Methods Chem. Anal. II. i. 487 It [sc. wood meal] must be prepared from white wood free from resin. Compounds C1. General attributive (in sense 1). ΚΠ 1589 Edinb. Test. XXI. f. 88, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Quhite wod Thrie buistis of quhyt wod cambes price xxxviij s. 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 183 On the level Ground of this Farm..grows several of these White-wood Trees [viz. poplars, etc.]. 1765 Newton (Lincs.) Enclosure Act 13 Ash or other white wood rails. 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. ii. ii. 492 The granary floor to be laid with inch-and-quarter white-wood battens, dressed and jointed. 1860 Illinois Teacher 6 110 His observations he recorded on white-wood planks with a pencil. 1908 R. Kipling Lett. of Trav. (1920) 133 The lard, the apples, the butter, and the cheese, in beautiful whitewood barrels. 1944 F. Clune Red Heart 51 Colson noted the grey box and whitewood trees became sparser. 1998 Timber Grower Autumn 27/1 British whitewood sawlogs will double over the next 15 years. C2. whitewood bark the aromatic bark of the tree Canella winterana; a powder made from this, used originally in medicinal preparations and later in perfumery; = canella bark n. at canella n. 2b. ΚΠ 1833 L. M. Day Bot. Family Physician 13 Take of..whitewood bark, four ounces; orange peel, one ounce; cinnamon, half an ounce; all bruised, and infused in three quarts of good wine. 1913 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 26 Dec. 10/4 Sick headache was forced to become a well one when brought in contact with whitewood bark soused in whisky. 2000 A. Dalby Dangerous Tastes 152 ‘Whitewood bark’ or ‘Winter's bark’..is used in perfume sachets and in potpourris. whitewood cedar Caribbean any of several trees of the tropical American genus Tabebuia (family Bignoniaceae) which provide useful timber; esp. T. pallida. ΚΠ 1864 A. H. R. Grisebach Flora Brit. W. Indian Islands 789 Whitewood-cedar, Tecoma Leucoxylon. 1920 Novitates Zoologicae 28 395 The larva..feeds on what is locally known as the Whitewood cedar, Tecoma leucoxylon (Bignoniaceae), an abundant tree in the islands of St. Vincent, Bequia and St. Lucia. 2011 Barbados Advocate 17 Apr. 9/5 We saw major decay of the college buildings—broken guttering, ferns all over the walls,..and three-foot high whitewood cedars growing out of the surviving top gutters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1562
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