East African yellowwood

noun

variants or East African pine

: real yellowwood

also : a related tree (Podocarpus gracilior synonym Afrocarpus gracilior) of eastern Africa with flattened, needlelike leaves and valuable yellowish-brown wood

Word History

First Known Use

1920, in the meaning defined above

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