yellowwood

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Y0016600 (yĕl′ō-wo͝od′)n.1. Any of several trees having yellow wood, especially Cladrastis kentukea in the pea family, native to the eastern United States, which has drooping clusters of white flowers and yields a yellow dye.2. The wood of any of these trees.

yellowwood

(ˈjɛləʊˌwʊd) n1. (Plants) Also called (US): gopherwood any of several leguminous trees of the genus Cladrastis, esp C. lutea, of the southeastern US, having clusters of white flowers and yellow wood yielding a yellow dye2. (Plants) Also called: West Indian satinwood a rutaceous tree, Zanthoxylum flavum, of the Caribbean, with smooth hard wood3. (Plants) any of several other trees with yellow wood, esp Podocarpus falcatus, a conifer of southern Africa: family Podocarpaceae4. (Forestry) the wood of any of these trees

yel•low•wood

(ˈyɛl oʊˌwʊd)

n. 1. a tree, Cladrastis lutea, of the legume family, of the southeastern U.S., having clusters of fragrant white flowers and wood that yields a yellow dye. 2. any of several other trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow dye. 3. the wood of any of these trees. [1660–70]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	yellowwood - the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood treesyellowwood tree, yellowwood - any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extractwood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
	2.	yellowwood - any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extractyellowwood treegymnospermous yellowwood - any of various gymnospermous trees having yellow woodangiospermous yellowwood - any of various angiospermous trees having yellow woodyellowwood - the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood treestree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

yellowwood

yellowwood,

common name for any species of the genus Cladrastis, leguminous trees of the family Leguminosae (pulsepulse,
in botany, common name for members of the Fabaceae (Leguminosae), a large plant family, called also the pea, or legume, family. Numbering about 650 genera and 17,000 species, the family is third largest, after the asters and the orchids.
..... Click the link for more information. family). Three of the four species are native to China and Japan. The other, C. lutea, is native to the SE United States and is cultivated as far north as Massachusetts, chiefly as an ornamental for the bright green leaves and the fragrant white blossoms. A dye has been obtained from the yellow heartwood. The name yellowwood is used also for several unrelated trees yielding yellow lumber, e.g., Podocarpus thunbergii and P. elongata, conifers of S Africa used in construction; Schaefferia frutescens of S Florida and the West Indies, sometimes also called boxwood and used in engraving as a substitute for true boxwood; and West Indian satinwood. Cladrastis is classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Leguminosae.

Yellowwood

the yellowish wood of more than 30 species of tropical and subtropical trees and bushes. Some-times the wood turns yellow only after exposure to air or light. The most important species yielding yellowwood are the China tree, used in making furniture; teak, used in building ships and railway cars; and those of the genera Torreya and Thujopsis, used in shipbuilding and carpentry. Some species of podocarpus, yellow pine, and yellow birch are used in carpentry, and chamaecyparis is used for marine structures. Yellow dyes for hides and cloth are obtained from the so-called Brazilian yellowwood, the osage orange, and the roots of some species of the genus Morinda. Of the native trees and shrubs of the USSR, the barberry and smoke tree have yellowwood.

REFERENCES

Vanin, S. I. Drevesinovedenie, 3rd ed. Moscow-Leningrad, 1949.
Scheiber, C. Tropenhölzer. Leipzig, 1965.

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noun the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees

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noun any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract

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