Word Meanings - EAGLEWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum.

Related words: (words related to EAGLEWOOD)

• FRAGRANT
  fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton. Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous;
• INFRAGRANT
  Not fragrant.
• AGALLOCH; AGALLOCHUM
  A soft, resinous wood of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species.