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 lance·wood /ˈlæn(t)sˌwʊd/
 一種強韌木材,其原木

 Lance·wood n. Bot. A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like.  Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseæ).
 Australian lancewood, a myrtaceous tree (Backhousia Australis).
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 lancewood
      n 1: durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for
           building and cabinetwork and tools
      2: source of most of the lancewood of commerce [syn: lancewood
         tree, Oxandra lanceolata]