Tasmanian blackwood

English

Noun

Tasmanian blackwood (plural Tasmanian blackwoods)

1. A tree, Acacia melanoxylon, native to eastern Australia and Tasmania, or (especially) the dark wood of this tree. [from 19th c.]
   • 2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 304:

     He led the way into a small bedroom with green skirting and mustard yellow panels carved from Tasmanian blackwood.

   • 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 167:

     The four walls of the library's reading room are covered from the floor almost to the ceiling in Tasmanian-blackwood bookcases.

Synonyms

• Australian blackwood, blackwood