sweetwood

English

Etymology

sweet +‎ wood

Noun

sweetwood (countable and uncountable, plural sweetwoods)

1. The true laurel (Laurus nobilis).
2. The timber of the Jamaican tree , or of various related trees.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sweetwood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)