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whitewood

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noun whitewoods

  1. countable, uncountable Terminalia buceras (black olive, gregory wood), a Caribbean tree
  2. countable, uncountable Coccoloba krugii (whitewood seagrape), of the neotropics
  3. countable, uncountable Petrobium atboreum (Saint Helena whitewood), an endemic tree of the island of St Helena
  4. countable, uncountable An Australian rainforest tree of species Elaeocarpus kirtonii (brown-heart quandong, mountain beech, Mowbullan whitewood, pigeonberry ash, silver quandong, white quandong, white beech)
  5. countable, uncountable Elaeocarpus obovatus (blueberry-ash), freckled oliveberry, grey carrobean, hard quandong), an Australian rainforest tree
  6. countable, uncountable Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip poplar), a large flowering tree of North America.
  7. countable, uncountable Tabebuia heterophylla (white cedar), of the Caribbean and South America.
  8. uncountable Wood of these trees or of spruce (Picea spp.)
  9. countable, uncountable A prototype version of a pinball table, without the final artwork. When the design seems satisfactory, the whitewood is wired to make it playable. Meanwhile the software developer has been creating the unique software to control the game.

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@misc{whitewood_2026,
  title = {whitewood},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/whitewood},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}