smokewood
English
Noun
smokewood (uncountable)
- Any of various plants that are used to produce smoke when burned.
- 1947, The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, volumes 23-25:
- The large colony collected in a smokewood tree near Apache Junction was used to set 100 groups of apterous individuals supposedly largely workers.
- 2004, Tricia Hayne, Cayman Islands, page 21:
- 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.
- The virgin's bower (Clematis vitalbaws), whose porous stems were traditionally smoked by boys.
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