Noun: gopher wood
Sample Sentences
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Make thee an ark of gopher wood. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 6:14:]
Nouns inflected like gopher wood
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From גפר, found in Genesis 6:14. Unrelated to the North American animal. Sometimes hypothesized to be ultimately cognate to English cypress, the wood itself being such or related to the tree. See: English Nouns '
cypress'.