Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shittimwood

3 senses of shittimwood

Sense 1
false buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, shittimwood, black haw, Bumelia lanuginosa -- (deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico)
       => buckthorn -- (any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia)

Sense 2
southern buckthorn, shittimwood, shittim, mock orange, Bumelia lycioides -- (shrubby thorny deciduous tree of southeastern United States with white flowers and small black drupaceous fruit)
       => buckthorn -- (any shrub or small tree of the genus Bumelia)

Sense 3
shittimwood -- (wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle)
       => wood -- (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)