smokewood en · NOUN
Etymology
From smoke + wood.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Any of various plants that are used to produce smoke when burned.
The large colony collected in a smokewood tree near Apache Junction was used to set 100 groups of apterous individuals supposedly largely workers.
1947, The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, volumes 23-25:Smokewood, Erythroxylum sp, was burned on fires to help keep mosquitoes at bay. Interestingly, the 'smokewood' used by people who lived east of Bodden Town was in fact the black mangrove; it was only those who lived west of the town that burned the freshwater plant known today as the smokewood tree.
2004, Tricia Hayne, Cayman Islands, page 21:
- (uncountable) The virgin's bower (Clematis vitalba), whose porous stems were traditionally smoked by boys.