Associations to the word «Lightwood»

Wiktionary

LIGHTWOOD, noun. Any of various trees with pale-coloured wood, especially the Australian tree Acacia melanoxylon.
LIGHTWOOD, noun. (North America) Wood used to light a fire; also a tree from which one obtains such wood.

Dictionary definition

LIGHTWOOD, noun. Tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats