lancewood
nounAny of various trees, especially Oxandra lanceolata of the West Indies, which has hard elastic wood formerly used for bows, carriage shafts, and fishing rods.
nounA name of several trees and of their wood.
nounA tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood,
a myrtaceous tree (
A tough,
durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools
nounsource of most of the lancewood of commerce