Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A tree (Osmanthus americanus) of the southeast United States, having fragrant greenish flowers, hard wood, and whitish bark.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The Osmanthus Americanus, a small tree of the southern United States, allied to the European olive. The wood is very heavy and strong, and so tough that it cannot be split.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A kind of tree (Osmanthus Americanus), allied to the European olive.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun botany A tree, Osmanthus americanus, allied to the European olive.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits

Etymologies

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devil +‎ wood

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Examples

  • She followed Davids eyes over toward a devilwood tree.

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  • She followed Davids eyes over toward a devilwood tree.

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  • He found that he was whistling tunelessly as the endless forests beneath the van slowly changed from blackwort and devilwood to the local conifer-equivalents: iceroot, creeping willow, _hierba_.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

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