sweetwood (swetwud)

A name of several chiefly laurineous trees and shrubs found in the West Indies and South America. The black sweetwood is Ocotea ( Strychnodaphne ) floribunda, a small tree or shrub of Jamaica; the loblolly-sweetwood or Rio Grande sweetwood, Ocotea ( Oreodaphne ) Leucoxylon, of the West Indies and South America (loblolly-sweetwood is also the local name of the West Indian Sciado phyllum Jacquini ); the long-leafed, Nectandra Antilli ana; the lowland, pepper, white, or yellow, N. sanguine a, a timber-tree 50 feet high, of the islands and continent; the mountain, Acrodiclidium Jam a i cense, a small tree of mountain woods in Jamaica; the shrubby, the rutaceous genus Amyris; the timber-sweetwood, Nectandra exalt at a, a tall tree with a hard yellow durable wood, found espe cially in Jamaica, also N. An till i an a and Acrodiclidium Jam a i cense; the white, N. sanguine a and N. An till i an a. The sweetwood of the Bahamas is Croton Eleuteria, the source of cascarilla or sweetwood bark. - Sweetwood bark. Same as cascarilla.