knobwood
English
Etymology
From the cone-shaped knob-like protuberances that cover the bark.
Noun
knobwood (plural knobwoods)
- Any of various South African trees of genus Zanthoxylum that have knob-like protuberances on the bark.
- 2017, Laura Spinney, Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World:
- In one, whe had seen an object wrapped in a dirty cloth hanging from the branch of a knobwood tree.
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