sweetwood

noun

1

: a laurel (Laurus nobilis)

2

: any of various chiefly tropical American trees of the family Lauraceae: such as

a

: a tree of the genus Ocotea compare stinkwood

b

: a tree of the genus Nectandra compare bebeeru

c

: a small or medium-sized Jamaican tree (Licaria triandra or Acrodiclidium jamaicense) with easily worked greenish yellow wood

3

: licorice sense 1,2a

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