Category:Yellowwood

Yel"low*wood`, n. (bot.)

Defn: the wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, Any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an american leguminous tree; the several Species of prickly ash (xanthoxylum); the australian flindersia Oxleyana, a tree related to the mahogany; certain south african Species of podocarpus, trees related to the yew; the east indian Podocarpus latifolia; and the true satinwood (chloroxylon swietenia). All these old world trees furnish valuable timber.