Definition of "greenheart" [greenheart]

• A tropical American tree (Ocotea rodioei) having dark, greenish, durable wood. (noun)
• Any of various similar trees. (noun)
• The wood of any of these trees. (noun)

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• "The first cost is more than for rods whose various parts are made of different woods, but the greenheart is the cheapest rod in the end."
• "Her sides are some eighteen inches thick, and sheathed and resheathed with "greenheart" to help her in battering the ice."
• "For crossing the river they have bridges that stretch from one great greenheart tree to another on the opposite bank..."