muskwood

English

Etymology

musk +‎ wood, because of its fragrance.

Noun

muskwood (uncountable)

1. Wood of a West Indian tree of the mahogany family (Trichilia moschata).
2. Wood of an Australian tree (Olearia argophylla).
3. Any of species Guarea guidonia, of the tropical Americas, or their wood.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “muskwood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)