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Definition of Snakewood
1. Noun. East Indian climbing shrub with twisted limbs and roots resembling serpents.
Definition of Snakewood
1. n. An East Indian climbing plant (Strychnos colubrina) having a bitter taste, and supposed to be a remedy for the bite of the hooded serpent.
Definition of Snakewood
1. Noun. ''Brosimum guianense'', an Amazonian tree having hard, speckled wood that resembles snakeskin; used in musical instruments ¹
2. Noun. ''Acacia xiphophylla'', an Australian tree with curving, snake-like limbs ¹
3. Noun. Any of various North American shrubs of the genus ''Colubrina'', often specifically ''Colubrina texensis'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Snakewood
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Snakewood
Literary usage of Snakewood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent by Richard Hakluyt, John Winter Jones, Robert Fahyan, Robert Thorne, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Jean Ribaut, Thomas Hacket (1850)
"snakewood, or Palo da cobra. snakewood, or Palo da cobra, groweth most in the
Isle of Zeilon. One ounce thereof, bruised and mixed with water, ..."
2. On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1875)
"The Strychnos colubrina, or snakewood of the East Indies, is supposed by some
... The term snakewood is applied, in the East, to a variety of woods which, ..."
3. On Poisons in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1859)
"The Strychnos Colubrina, or snakewood of the East Indies is supposed by some to
... The term snakewood is applied in the East, to a variety of woods which, ..."
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