Definition of "lancewood"
noun
countable and uncountable, plural lancewoods
(Australia) Any of various Australian trees having hard timber, especially Acacia shirleyi of Queensland and the Northern Territory; also a woodland made of such trees.
Quotations
Besides these two trees, which are the most general form of vegetation met with, may be found the briglow, bugwood, lapunya, lancewood, cork, box, and bloodwood, the last so named from its light red sap, which oozes in a thick stream
1904, Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume 20, page 578