Peach-wood

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  peachwood \peach"wood`\ (p[=e]ch"w[oo^]d`) n.
     1. A tropical tree {Caesalpinia echinata}, having a prickly
        trunk; its heavy red wood yields a red dye and is used for
        cabinetry.
  
     Syn: Caesalpinia echinata.


          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. The heavy red wood of the {Caesalpinia echinata};
        brazilwood; pernambuco wood.
        [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  peach-wood
       n : tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields
           a red dye and is used for cabinetry [syn: {brazilwood}, {peachwood},
            {pernambuco wood}, {Caesalpinia echinata}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  peachwood
       n : tropical tree with prickly trunk; its heavy red wood yields
           a red dye and is used for cabinetry [syn: {brazilwood}, {peach-wood},
            {pernambuco wood}, {Caesalpinia echinata}]