"fruit-wood" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fruit-woods [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} fruit-wood (countable and uncountable, plural fruit-woods)
  1. Alternative spelling of fruitwood Tags: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: fruitwood
    Sense id: en-fruit-wood-en-noun-c9dGGVZl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Undetermined quotations with omitted translation

Inflected forms

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