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Meanings of shittimwood in English
Spanish
bumelia lanuginosa Deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico.
Shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit.
Synonyms
Examples for "false buckthorn"
Examples for "false buckthorn"
1
The fruit of the black haw, or stag-bush, is not edible until after frost has touched it.
2
One writer gave black haw and snowball as their favourite foods, and the length of the caterpillar when full grown nearly two inches.
3
Wild grapes and black haws were ready.
4
The bittersweet black haws were ripe.
5
You see it on cultivated plums, grapes, and apples, but never in any such perfection as on moonseed and black haws in the woods.
Usage of shittimwood in English
1
It was but a chest of shittimwood, with two slabs of lettered stone in it,-andwhat help was in that?