LIGHTWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lightwood mean? 

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

1. tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIGHTWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Acacia melanoxylon; lightwood

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

blackwood; blackwood tree (any of several hardwood trees yielding very dark-colored wood)

Holonyms ("lightwood" is a member of...):

genus Acacia (large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa)