Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various trees, especially Oxandra lanceolata of the West Indies, which has hard elastic wood formerly used for bows, carriage shafts, and fishing rods.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of several trees and of their wood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood,
Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseæ ). - noun a myrtaceous tree (
Backhousia Australis ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A tough,
elastic and heavywood obtained from theWest Indies andGuiana , formerly much used forcarriage shafts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools
- noun source of most of the lancewood of commerce
Etymologies
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Examples
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Increased incidence of extensive hot fires may also be leading to the reduction of lancewood-bullwaddy environments.
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Variation in vertebrate species composition across the environmental range occupied by lancewood vegetation in the Northern Territory.
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The ecoregion includes the most extensive stands of lancewood-bullwaddy found in Australia, but this is generally a fairly depauperate environment.
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Dominant vegetation is eucalypt woodland with a grassy understory, although lancewood (Acacia shirleyi) and bullwaddy (Macropteranthes keckwickii) vegetation harbors rainforest elements, and small pockets of mesic vegetation are found throughout the ecoregion, in riparian strips and in sheltered gorges of the Bungle Bungles.
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The rainforest element is so pronounced that Russell-Smith considered lancewood vegetation to be one of the 16 rainforest types in the Northern Territory.
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The relatively dense vegetation cover provided by the lancewood-bullwaddy canopy results in a sparse grass cover, while the extensive canopy cover and infrequency of fire provides an environment which supports forbs, small shrubs and vines with rainforest affinities.
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The mammal fauna includes unusually abundant populations of the spectacled hare-wallaby (Lagorchestes conspicillatus), especially in the lancewood-bullwaddy thickets, and the northern nailtail wallaby (Onychogalea unguifera), especially in grasslands and open woodlands along the margins between black-soil plains and red loamy soils.
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In the Kynuna-Winton area of Queensland, mesas formed by resistant tertiary duricrusts are vegetated by stands of lancewood (Acacia shirleyi) and low eucalypt communities with a spinifex (Triodia spp.) groundcover.
Mitchell grass downs 2007
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The habitat types within these reserves range from eucalypt woodland, chenopod shrubland, bluebush, lancewood, gidgee, and grasslands to Acacia woodlands.
Mitchell grass downs 2007
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Within a hundred yards the banks are thickly wooded with tall mulga and lancewood scrub; but to the east is open gum forest, splendidly grassed.
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