lancewood
New Zealand trees in the genus .
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New Zealand trees in the genus .
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A tough, elastic and heavy wood obtained from the West Indies and Guiana, formerly much used for carriage shafts ().
Besides these two trees, which are the most general form of vegetation met with, may be found the briglow, bugwood, lapunya, lancewood, cork, box, and bloodwood, the last so named from its light red sap, which oozes in a thick stream
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(AU) Any of various Australian trees having hard timber, especially of Queensland and the Northern Territory; also a woodland made of such trees.
Besides these two trees, which are the most general form of vegetation met with, may be found the briglow, bugwood, lapunya, lancewood, cork, box, and bloodwood, the last so named from its light red sap, which oozes in a thick stream
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The Maori name for the lancewood tree (Pseudopanax crassifolius), a distinctive New Zealand native tree with long, narrow, downward-pointing juvenile leaves that transform dramatically as the tree matures. The juvenile and adult forms look so different they were once classified as separate species.