Associations to the word «Bois»

Wiktionary

BOIS, proper noun. A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Désiré Georges Jean Marie Bois (1856-1946).
BOIS D'ARC, noun. The osage orange.
BOIS DURCI, noun. A hard, polishable composition of fine sawdust and blood, formerly used for making household items.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne