warwood

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Wood used for military materiel, especially in the context of historical warfare uncountable
    — Sons of battle! Hunters of men! Raise high your war-wood! Hack away merry men, hack away.

词源

From war + wood. Perhaps at least partly an allusion to koa (Acacia koa), a tree endemic to Hawaii with wood similar in quality to Juglans nigra, black walnut, and whose name in Hawaiian can also mean warrior, or to beefwood (Casuarina equisetifolia) which also has deep-colored, hard wood and in some Polynesian languages shares the same association between the name and words for warriors (both cognate with the Hawaiian term).
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