light yellowwood

noun

1

: any of several timber trees with yellow wood: such as

a

: real yellowwood

b Australia

(1)

: sassafras sense 3a(2)

(2)

: a flindersia (Flindersia oxleyana)

(3)

: arborvitae sense 1

2

: the wood of a light yellowwood tree

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