bow wood

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bow wood - small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and an inedible fruit that resembles an orange; its hard orange-colored wood used for bows by Native Americans; frequently planted as boundary hedge

Maclura pomifera, osage orange, mock orange

angiospermous yellowwood - any of various angiospermous trees having yellow wood

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Walnut was the most common because it was plentiful, but select calls were made of Hedge, better known as Osage Orange or Bois d'Arc, French for archery bow wood; in the vernacular Bodock.

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BARRY MILLER, Lemington HOT DAY AND DARK NIGHT Sun rising heat of the day Scorching the grass Burning and turning into sand like a second dust bow Wood Guthrie wrote and sung A B Deportive later another Ritchie Vale a fruit picker's son Wrote about his girl "Donna" "A La Bamba" KEVIN BROWN.

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Through Alan's patient tutelage, I came to understand the synchronous qualities comprising harmonious bow wood are as exceptional as discovering the perfect likeness of Jesus Christ in a tortilla's surface.

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I took advantage of the season's first cool temperatures and spent the morning cutting fence posts from several Osage orange (Maclura pomifera; hedge, hedge-apple, bow wood, etc.) trees for a pen-building project that has been on my mind all summer.