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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope