torchwood

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Any of several tropical American trees of the genus Amyris, having resinous wood that burns with a torchlike flame.

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The wood of any of these trees.

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Wood suitable for making torches.

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A tree of the rutaceous genus Amyris, either A. maritima of Florida and the West Indies, or A. balsamifera of the West Indies.

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The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, Amyris Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.

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Wood used to make torches.

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A tree of the genus Amyris.

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A type of cactus, Cereus heptagonus.

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Wood exhibiting fungal bioluminescence, foxfire.