musclewood

English
musclewood trunk

Wikispecies

Etymology

muscle (“from the sinewy appearance of the trunk and branches”) +‎ wood

Noun

musclewood (countable and uncountable, plural musclewoods)

  1. A common name for the species Carpinus caroliniana, a species of deciduous tree.
  2. (uncountable) The wood of this species.
  3. (countable) A tree of this species.

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