Limewood

Origin

lime + wood

Full definition of limewood

Noun

1. The wood of the lime tree.
• 2008, June 13, Carol Vogel, Darkness Was Muse for a Master of Light, But he would not publicly confirm his purchase of “Hercules and Achelous,” or another rarity that experts say he bought this year: a limewood figure of St. Catherine by the German Medieval sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider that went for $6.3 million at Sotheby’s in January.