partridge-wood

English

Alternative forms

  • partridge wood

Noun

partridge-wood (uncountable)

  1. A hard variegated wood from a tree species of Brazil and the West Indies (Andira inermis), used in cabinet-work.
  2. Panga panga (Millettia stuhlmannii)
  3. Unusually dark wood with pockets of white mycelium, found in oak trees damaged by the fungus Stereum frustolosum.

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