lightwood

Same as coachwood.

Any wood used in lighting a fire; kindlings; especially, in the southern United States, very resinous pine wood.

The ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida: so called from its toughness.

An inappropriate colonial name for the Australian tree Acacia Melanoxylon, more properly called blackwood.

Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.

Any of various trees with pale-coloured wood, especially the Australian tree Acacia melanoxylon.

Wood used to light a fire; also a tree from which one obtains such wood.

tall Australian acacia yielding highly valued black timber