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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Shit·tah Shit·tah tree , n.  A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; -- now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in color.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 shittah tree
      n : source of a wood mentioned frequently in the Bible; probably
          a species of Acacia [syn: shittah]