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n. - South African evergreen having hard tough trunks and branches.

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Usage examples (5)
  • The bookcases were of pale wood, lemon-wood or maple, and the walls were lined with books.
  • He first got interested in archery when we lived in Florida and my mother gave him a lemon-wood longbow from a local sporting goods store.
  • Where has she gone from the lemon-wood box I made for her, where she never slept at all, for she lay with me all night, not in the box, the lemon-wood box where...
  • Alongside was a simple couscous, served from a lemon-wood couscous spoon that still smelled faintly citrusy.
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