A type of tree or its wood that contains camphor or has camphor-like properties, often used in furniture, incense, or traditional medicine.
A compound word from camphor and wood, referring to trees of the Cinnamomum camphora species or similar species that produce camphor-rich wood. Historical wood trade names often combined the wood's most notable property.
Camphor wood was used in traditional Asian furniture specifically because insects hated it—people discovered that camphor actually kills moths and beetles, turning it into the original 'cedar chest' technology!
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