smokewood
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The virgin's bower (Clematis vitalba), whose porous stems were traditionally smoked by boys.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The large colony collected in a smokewood tree near Apache Junction was used to set 100 groups of apterous individuals supposedly largely workers."
- "Smokewood, Erythroxylum sp, was burned on fires to help keep mosquitoes at bay. Interestingly, the 'smokewood' used by people who lived east of Bodden Town was in fact the black mangrove; it was only those who lived west of the town that burned the freshwater plant known today as the smokewood tree."