Word Meanings - STINKWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A name given to several kinds of wood with an unpleasant smell, as that of the Foetidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.

Related words: (words related to STINKWOOD)

• SOUTHWEST
  The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.
• SOUTHSAY
  See SOOTHSAY
• SOUTHWESTERLY
  To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
• SOUTHPAW
  A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
• SOUTHERNLINESS
  Southerliness.
• AFRICAN
  A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
• AFRICANISM
  A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.
• SOUTHREN
  Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
• SMELLING
  1. The act of one who smells. 2. The sense by which odors are perceived; the sense of smell. Locke. Smelling bottle, a small bottle filled with something suited to stimulate the sense of smell, or to remove faintness, as spirits of ammonia.
• SOUTHSAYER
  See SOOTHSAYER
• SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
  the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
• SOUTHING
  Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian
• AFRICANIZE
  To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. Bartlett.
• SOUTHERN
  A Southerner.
• SOUTHNESS
  A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday.
• SOUTHEASTERN
  Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly.
• SOUTHWESTWARD; SOUTHWESTWARDLY
  Toward the southwest.
• SOUTHER
  A strong wind, gale, or storm from the south.
• SOUTHERLINESS
  The quality or state of being southerly; direction toward the south.
• SEVERAL
  1. Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual. There was not time enough to hear . . . The severals. Shak. 2. Persons oe objects, more than two, but not very many. Several of them neither rose from any conspicuous family, nor
• EURAFRIC; EURAFRICAN
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined. 2. Pert. to or designating a region including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the Sahara. 3. Of European and African descent.
• EMPIRE STATE OF THE SOUTH
  Georgia; -- a nickname.
• SOUTHEAST
  The point of the compass equally distant from the south and the east; the southeast part or region.
• SOUTHERNWOOD
  A shrubby species of wormwood having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.