YELLOWWOOD

yellowwood, yellowwood tree

(noun) any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract

yellowwood

(noun) the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

yellowwood (countable and uncountable, plural yellowwoods)

Any of the tree genus Cladrastis.

Flindersia xanthoxyla, a tall rainforest tree of Australia.

The osage orange tree.

Any of the conifer genus Podocarpus.

Sarcomelicope simplicifolia, a small rainforest tree of Australia.

Zanthoxylum brachyacanthum, thorny yellowwood, of Australia

Source: Wiktionary

Yel"low*wood`, n. (Bot.)

Definition: The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum); the Australian Flindersia Oxleyana, a tree related to the mahogany; certain South African species of Podocarpus, trees related to the yew; the East Indian Podocarpus latifolia; and the true satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia). All these Old World trees furnish valuable timber.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition