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SHITTIMWOOD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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

shittah; shittah tree (source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit

Synonyms:

Bumelia lycioides; mock orange; shittim; shittimwood; southern buckthorn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

buckthorn (any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico

Synonyms:

black haw; Bumelia lanuginosa; chittamwood; chittimwood; false buckthorn; shittimwood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

buckthorn (any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia)

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