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cheesewood
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noun
- rare.the tough yellowish wood of Australian trees of the genus Pittosporum: family Pittosporaceae
Example Sentences
White′wood, a name applied to a large number of trees or their timber—the American tulip-tree, white-wood cedar, cheesewood, &c.;
The students collected dozens of teas and herbal teas and found extra ingredients in some including ferns, grass, parsley, other weeds and even traces of an ornamental tree, Taiwanese cheesewood, they said.
Four percent of the 70 tea products they tested and 35 percent of the herbal products had unlisted ingredients, including white goosefoot, a weed; Taiwanese cheesewood, an ornamental tree; and, most often, chamomile and plants closely resembling parsley.
Cheesewood is yellowish-white, very hard, and of uniform texture and colour.
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