| 单词 | yellow cheesewood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellow cheesewood Pale, relatively soft timber obtained from various Australian trees; (also) any of the trees producing such timber, esp. the pittosporum Pittosporum bicolor (family Pittosporaceae), the dita bark tree, Alstonia scholaris (family Apocynaceae) (more fully white cheesewood), and the Leichhardt pine, Nauclea orientalis (family Rubiaceae) (more fully yellow cheesewood). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > other Australasian woods puriri1835 beef-wood1836 whau1840 rimu1851 cheesewood1854 Tolosa-wood1866 karri1870 ivorywood1887 1854 Courier (Hobart, Austral.) 2 May 2/4 Carpodontos,—Box or Cheese-wood. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 588 ‘Cheesewood’..is yellowish-white, very hard, and of uniform texture and colour. 1948 Cairns (Queensland) Post 4 Dec. 4/6 The softer timbers—even down to the White Cheesewood Milky Pine and Sassafrass types—are more favourable to solid core wide-board panel making. 1984 D. J. Boland et al. Forest Trees Austral. (ed. 4) 614 (heading) Cheesewood. Leichhardt pine. Yellow cheesewood. Nauclea orientalis (L.) L. 2009 Sunday Tasmanian (Nexis) 26 Apr. 12 One of the goals of the workshops was to showcase specialty Tasmanian timbers including fiddleback blackwood, native olive, cheesewood, tiger myrtle and sassafras. < as lemmas |
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