smokewood

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Definition of smokewood

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noun

(uncountable)Any of various plants that are used to produce smoke when burned.

“The large colony collected in a smokewood tree near Apache Junction was used to set 100 groups of apterous individuals supposedly largely workers.”
“Smokewood, Erythroxylum sp, was burned on fires to help keep mosquitoes at bay. Interestingly, the 'smokewood' used by people who lived east of Bodden Town was in fact the black mangrove; it was only those who lived west of the town that burned the freshwater plant known today as the smokewood tree.”

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noun

(uncountable)Any of various plants that are used to produce smoke when burned.

“The large colony collected in a smokewood tree near Apache Junction was used to set 100 groups of apterous individuals supposedly largely workers.”
“Smokewood, Erythroxylum sp, was burned on fires to help keep mosquitoes at bay. Interestingly, the 'smokewood' used by people who lived east of Bodden Town was in fact the black mangrove; it was only those who lived west of the town that burned the freshwater plant known today as the smokewood tree.”
(uncountable)The virgin's bower (Clematis vitalba), whose porous stems were traditionally smoked by boys.

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From smoke + wood.

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