musclewood

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From muscle (“from the sinewy appearance of the trunk and branches”) +‎ wood.

Noun

musclewood (countable and uncountable, plural musclewoods)

  1. Carpinus caroliniana, a deciduous tree of eastern North America.
  2. (uncountable) The wood of this tree.

Synonyms

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