cheesewood

English

Etymology

cheese + wood

Noun

cheesewood (countable and uncountable, plural cheesewoods)

  1. Any plant of various species:
    1. Alstonia scholaris (blackboard tree, scholar tree, milkwood, devil's tree, white cheesewood).
    2. Melodorum fruticosum (white cheesewood).
    3. Pittosporum species.
    4. Nauclea orientalis (Leichhardt tree, yellow cheesewood, Canary cheesewood).
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