lancewood

plural lancewoods

1. countableuncountableA tough, elastic and heavy wood obtained from the West Indies and Guiana, formerly much used for carriage shafts (Oxandra lanceolata).
2. countableuncountableNew Zealand trees in the genus Pseudopanax.
3. AustraliacountableuncountableAny of various Australian trees having hard timber, especially Acacia shirleyi of Queensland and the Northern Territory; also a woodland made of such trees.First known use 19th c.

   Bo sat on the sprung branch of a toppled lancewood.

   2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 40

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   Besides these two trees, which are the most general form of vegetation met with, may be found the briglow, bugwood, lapunya, lancewood, cork, box, and bloodwood, the last so named from its light red sap, which oozes in a thick stream

   1904, Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume 20, page 578