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green•heart

Pronunciation: (grēn'härt"), [key]
—n.
1. a South American tree, Ocotea (or Nectandra) rodiei, of the laurel family, yielding a hard, durable wood often used for wharves and bridges and in shipbuilding.
2. any of certain other timber trees of tropical America.
3. their valuable greenish wood.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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