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Tasmanian blackwood en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A tree, Acacia melanoxylon, native to eastern Australia and Tasmania, or (especially) the dark wood of this tree.
    • He led the way into a small bedroom with green skirting and mustard yellow panels carved from Tasmanian blackwood. 2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 304
    • The four walls of the library's reading room are covered from the floor almost to the ceiling in Tasmanian-blackwood bookcases. 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 167:

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Synonyms

blackwood · Australian blackwood