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Noun: shittimwood
  1. Deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico
    - false buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa
     
  2. Shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit
    - southern buckthorn, shittim, mock orange, Bumelia lycioides
     
  3. Wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle

Derived forms: shittimwoods

Type of: buckthorn, wood

Part of: shittah, shittah tree

Encyclopedia: Shittimwood