knobwood

English

Knobwood

Etymology

From the cone-shaped knob-like protuberances that cover the bark.

Noun

knobwood (plural knobwoods)

1. 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.