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Definition of Torchwood
1. n. The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, A. Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.
Definition of Torchwood
1. Noun. Wood used to make torches. ¹
2. Noun. A tree of the genus ''Amyris'', ¹
3. Noun. A type of cactus, ''Cereus heptagonus''. ¹
4. Noun. Wood exhibiting fungal bioluminescence, foxfire. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Torchwood
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Medical Definition of Torchwood
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Torchwood
Literary usage of Torchwood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and by Francis Peyre Porcher (1869)
"torchwood, (Amyris Floridana, Nutt.) South Florida. Chapman. Nearly all the
species afford fine materials in both their resin »nd their wood for fragrant ..."
2. The Indian Forester (1892)
"Many thousands of fine kail and deodar have been killed in this way in Kashmir.
Another form of damage is that of hacking into the trunk for torchwood ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1877)
"... of the shores of the Southern States, while on the latter the larger trees
are fig-trees of two or three species, the quassia (Simaruba), the torchwood ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"The ground was white with hoar-frost, but we were not cold; besides, the air, as
we met it, was warmed by the bundles of blazing torchwood which our ..."
5. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"... "the savages stuck him full of fine small splinters of torchwood, like hog's
bristles, and so set them gradually on fire," we shall never know; for, ..."
6. Virgil: The Georgics Done Into English Proseby Virgil by Virgil (1899)
"And one I know keeps awake late by the winter firelight, and points torchwood
with sharp steel: meanwhile, lightening her long toil with song, the wife runs ..."
7. Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Drydens̀ by Plutarch, John Dryden (1895)
"... removed her treasure, her gokl, silver, emeralds, pearls, ebon}7, ivory,
cinnamon, and, after all, a great quantity of torchwood and tow. ..."
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