spicewood

American  

[spahys-wood] / ˈspaɪsˌwʊd /

noun

1. spicebush.

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Etymology

Origin of spicewood

An Americanism dating back to 1750–60; spice + wood ¹

Example Sentences

It worked like a charm; the spicewood boughs not only added to the brightness of the scene but filled the whole house with the "sweet smelling savour" of a little boy's love and gratitude.

From The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln by Whipple, Wayne

Knowing its urgency, they left the spicewood and swept down with the helping band.

From The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

Every grateful shrub and bit of sod, the pawpaw leaves and spicewood stems, the half-formed hazel-nuts in fluted sheaths, and even new hay-stacks in the meadows, breathed out their best to the rain.

From Old Caravan Days by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

But she sipped it as she would have done the decoction of some bitter herb, and frankly confessed that she did not like it as well as the forest substitutes, namely, sassafras, dittany, and spicewood.

From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

The spicewood was everywhere in flower in the forests on the bank, and it is said that its appearance indicates a fine soil.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp