English
leopardwoodleopardwood
From leopard + wood, from its spotted bark.
A compound of leopard + wood
Ancient Greek λεόπαρδος ‘leopon, lipard’
Late Latin leopardus ‘leopon, lipard’
Old French leopard
Middle English leopard
English leopard
Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- ‘to separate’
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Proto-West Germanic *widu ‘forest’
Old English widu
Old English wudu ‘wood’
Middle English wode ‘wood’
English wood
Today it means
noun Either of two trees of the genus Flindersia of New South Wales and Queensland, having a distinctive spotted trunk, Flindersia maculosa and Flindersia collina.
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Etymograph / leopardwood
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