Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bugwood

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bug-wood
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Cutover scrap lumber.

American usage; Uncountable

noun

Acacia verticillata

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Horton and the others had hardly assimilated the lessons of Wilder when the Grundy County bugwood cutters struck. Bugwood, knotty crooks of trees which can be found in any cut-over forest, is unfit for sawing into lumber, but it was harvested for use om distilling wood alcohol"
"Besides these two trees, which are the most general form of vegetation met with, may be found the briglow, bugwood, lapunya, lancewood, cork, box, and bloodwood, the last so named from its light red sap, which oozes in a thick stream"

Etymology

From bug + wood.

Usage

American usage
Uncountable

Synonyms

prickly mimosa prickly Moses star acacia

Questions

What does bugwood mean?: Cutover scrap lumber.
Where does bugwood come from?: From bug + wood.

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