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fiddle-wood

[fid-l-wood]

fid·dle·wood

[fid-l-wood]
noun
1.
the heavy, hard, durable wood of various West Indian and other trees.
2.
any of these trees, especially species of the genera Citharexylum and Vitex.

Origin:
1705–15; fiddle + wood1
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