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LACEWOOD
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Variably colored and sometimes variegated hard tough elastic wood of a sycamore tree
Synonyms:
lacewood; sycamore
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lacewood" is a kind of...):
wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)
Holonyms ("lacewood" is a substance of...):
plane tree; platan; sycamore (any of several trees of the genus Platanus having thin pale bark that scales off in small plates and lobed leaves and ball-shaped heads of fruits)