partridgewood

noun

1

a(1)

: the hard reddish mottled wood of a tree of the genus Andira (especially A. americana) used especially for walking sticks and cabinetwork

called also acapu, pheasantwood

(2)

: a tree yielding such wood

b

: the dark wood of any of several West Indian cabbage palms

c

: granadilla wood sense 4

d

: the light ornately marked gray wood of an Australian fan palm (Livistona inermis)

2

: wood characteristically speckled as the result of attack by a fungus (Stereum frustulosum)

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