fiddlewood

Wikispecies

From fiddle +‎ wood, a corruption of French bois-fidèle (“faithful wood”), so called from its durability.

fiddlewood (countable and uncountable, plural fiddlewoods)

1. The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.
2. Any of these trees.

• “fiddlewood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.