shittimwood

English Thesaurus

1. wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	wood,
definition	:	the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees (noun.substance)

substance meronym	:	shittah, shittah tree,
definition	:	source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia (noun.plant)

2. shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	buckthorn, buckthorn,
definition	:	any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia (noun.plant)