Definition of "candlewood" []

• Any of several trees or shrubs yielding a usually resinous wood. (noun)
• The wood of such a plant, burned for light or fuel. (noun)
• The ocotillo. (noun)

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• "Tawnos was stripped to the waist and bending a thick spar of candlewood along a graceful line chalked against one wall."
• "The entire encampment could hear the sharp creaking of the candlewood struts and the high-pitched whine of the wires passing through metal loops and pulleys."
• "Long poles of ancient candlewood jutted from the exposed bank, to which had been attached what looked like sail rigging."