Definition of Needlewood

1. Noun. Large bushy shrub with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers; central and eastern Australia.

Exact synonyms: Hakea Leucoptera, Needle Wood, Needle-wood
Group relationships: Genus Hakea, Hakea
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub

Lexicographical Neighbors of Needlewood

needless to say
needlessly
needlessness
needlessnesses
needlestick
needlestick-injury
needlestick injuries
needlestick injury
needlesticks
needlestone
needlestones
needlet
needlets
needlewoman
needlewomen
needlewood (current term)
needlework
needleworker
needleworkers
needleworking
needleworks
needlier
needliest
needling
needlings
needly
needment
needments
needn't
needna

Literary usage of Needlewood

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report by New South Wales Dept. of Education (1897)
"... Technical College ; Owen Blacket, Technical College ; Tait and McDiarmid, Mudgee ; AR Crawford, Walcha ; DA Porter, Inverell ; needlewood Pipe Company, ..."

2. On the Wool Track by Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean (1910)
"Pretty pine trees, blue clumps of applewood, needlewood, belar, grey-blue mulga, with the exquisite black tracery of its delicate branches showing under the ..."

3. The Chinese by John Stuart Thomson (1909)
"... or needlewood fir-trees are huddled the low stone houses of the villagers, that they may be near their rice swamps, and shan-yu (sweet potato) terraces. ..."

4. Forestry Handbook by R. Dalrymple Hay, Joseph Henry Maiden (1917)
"... White Beech White yiel yiel Silky Oak Western beei wood A hakea A hakea Fraser's haker. Ivory's hakea needlewood A western cork tree ..."

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