Lancewood (wood)
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Lancewood is a tough, elastic and heavy wood obtained from the West Indies and Guiana.
It is brought into commerce in the form of taper poles of about 6 meters in length and from 15 to 20 centimers in diameter at the thickest end. The wood is obtained from species of the family Annonaceae. The black lancewood or carisiri of Guiana is of remarkably slender form. The Yellow lancewood tree is found in tolerable abundance throughout Guiana, and used by the Indians for arrow-points, as well as for spars, beams, etc.
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