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Arrow wood   /ˈæroʊ wʊd/   Listen
Arrow wood

noun
1.
Closely related to southern arrow wood; grows in the eastern United States from Maine to Ohio and Georgia.  Synonym: Viburnum recognitum.
2.
Deciduous shrub of eastern North America having blue-black berries and tough pliant wood formerly used to make arrows.  Synonyms: southern arrow wood, Viburnum dentatum.






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"Arrow wood" Quotes from Famous Books



... awoke on the morrow, they found that their beards had turned black, nor did any who had eaten of the young Rukh grow gray ever after. Some said the cause of the return of youth to them and the ceasing of hoariness from them was that they had heated the pot with arrow wood, whilst others would have it that it came of eating the Rukh chick's flesh; and this is indeed a wonder of wonders.[FN177] And ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton



Words linked to "Arrow wood" :   bush, Viburnum, Viburnum dentatum, shrub, genus Viburnum



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