milkwood
Etymology
From milk + wood.
milkwood means any of a number of trees with milky sap:; Sideroxylon inermis, the white milkwood. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
noun
- Any of a number of trees with milky sap:; Sideroxylon inermis, the white milkwood
- Any of a number of trees with milky sap:; Mimusops zeyheri, the Transvaal red milkwood.
- Any of a number of trees with milky sap:; Alstonia scholaris (scholar tree, milky pine), and other species in the genus Alstonia.
- Any of a number of trees with milky sap:; Trimeris scaevolifolia, a tree endemic to the Atlantic island of St. Helena.
- Any of a number of trees with milky sap:; Many species of the genus Tabernaemontana, that are native to the Americas.