shittah

English Thesaurus

1. source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably a species of genus Acacia (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	acacia,
definition	:	any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	genus acacia,
definition	:	large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa (noun.plant)

substance holonym	:	shittimwood,
definition	:	wood of the shittah tree used to make the ark of the Hebrew Tabernacle (noun.plant)