smokewood

English

Etymology

From smoke +‎ wood.

Noun

smokewood (uncountable)

1. Any of various plants that are used to produce smoke when burned.
   • 1947, The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, volumes 23-25:

     The large colony collected in a smokewood tree near Apache Junction was used to set 100 groups of apterous individuals supposedly largely workers.

   • 2004, Tricia Hayne, Cayman Islands, page 21:

     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.

2. The virgin's bower (Clematis vitalba^ws), whose porous stems were traditionally smoked by boys.

Related terms

• smoke signal
• woodsmoke

 

Anagrams

• woodsmoke