CANDLEWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does candlewood mean? 

• CANDLEWOOD (noun)
  The noun CANDLEWOOD has 1 sense:

1. any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light

  Familiarity information: CANDLEWOOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANDLEWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several resinous trees or shrubs often burned for light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("candlewood" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "candlewood"):

coachwhip; Fouquieria splendens; Jacob's staff; ocotillo; vine cactus (desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers)

boojum tree; cirio; Fouquieria columnaris; Idria columnaris (candlewood of Mexico and southwestern California having tall columnar stems and bearing honey-scented creamy yellow flowers)