Word Meanings - EAGLEWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum.
Related words: (words related to EAGLEWOOD)
- FRAGRANT
fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton. Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous; - INFRAGRANT
Not fragrant. - AGALLOCH; AGALLOCHUM
A soft, resinous wood of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species.