princewood

noun

1

a

: either of two tropical American timber trees (Cordia gerascanthus and C. alliodora)

b

: the hard heavy smooth elastic dark-streaked brown wood of either tree

2

: a tropical American shrub (Exostema caribaeum) with a bark used in the preparation of bitters

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