Akademik

muskwood

noun

musk-scented shrub or tree of southern and southeastern Australia having creamy-yellow flower heads

• Syn: ↑Olearia argophylla

• Hypernyms: ↑daisybush, ↑daisy-bush, ↑daisy bush

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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun

1.

a. : a usually small to medium-sized widely distributed tropical American musky-odored tree (Guarea trichilioides)

b. : the reddish brown rather light straight-grained wood of this tree used especially formerly in the West Indies as a substitute for mahogany

2.

a. : a musk tree (Olearia argophylla)

b. : the hard white wood of the musk tree used for cabinetwork

Useful english dictionary. 2012.