yellowwood

yellowwood has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract
• n.. the yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees