LACEWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lacewood mean? 

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

1. variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LACEWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

lacewood; sycamore

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

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("lacewood" is a substance of...):

plane tree; platan; sycamore (any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits)