"fiddlewood" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fiddlewoods [plural]
Etymology: fiddle + wood, a corruption of French bois-fidèle (“faithful wood”), so called from its durability. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|fiddle|wood}} fiddle + wood, {{der|en|fr|bois-fidèle||faithful wood}} French bois-fidèle (“faithful wood”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} fiddlewood (countable and uncountable, plural fiddlewoods)
  1. The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Lamiales order plants
    Sense id: en-fiddlewood-en-noun-VvYAFGkT Disambiguation of Lamiales order plants: 68 32 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 40 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 84 16
  2. Any of these trees. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-fiddlewood-en-noun-enVmZpoN

Inflected forms

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