tar-wood

Definitions of tar-wood
  1. noun
    New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes
    synonyms: Dacrydium colensoi, tarwood
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    type of:
    conifer, coniferous tree
    any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones
  2. noun
    New Zealand shrub
    synonyms: Dacrydium bidwilli, Halocarpus bidwilli, New Zealand mountain pine, tarwood
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    type of:
    conifer, coniferous tree
    any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones
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