mahogany – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
mahogany
n.
any of a number of tropical American trees; hard reddish-brown wood of the mahogany tree; reddish-brown color
Mahogany
Mahogany is a kind of
wood—the straight-
grained, reddish-brown
timber of three
tropical hardwood species of the
genus Swietenia, indigenous to the
Americas, part of the pantropical
chinaberry family, Meliaceae. The three species are:
- Honduran or big-leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), with a range from Mexico to southern Amazonia in Brazil, the most widespread species of mahogany and the only true mahogany species commercially grown today. Illegal logging of S. macrophylla, and its highly destructive environmental effects, led to the species' placement in 2003 on Appendix II of Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), the first time that a high-volume, high-value tree was listed on Appendix II.
- West Indian or Cuban mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni), native to southern Florida and the Caribbean, formerly dominant in the mahogany trade, but not in widespread commercial use since World War II.
- Swietenia humilis, a small and often twisted mahogany tree limited to seasonally dry forests in Pacific Central America that is of limited commercial utility. Some botanists believe that S. humilis is a mere variant of S. macrophylla.
mahogany
Noun
1. wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture
(hypernym) wood
(hyponym) Philippine mahogany
(substance-holonym) mahogany tree
2. any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish
(synonym) mahogany tree
(hypernym) tree
(hyponym) Spanish cedar, Spanish cedar tree, Cedrela odorata
(member-holonym) Meliaceae, family Meliaceae, mahogany family
mahogany
n.
mahagon
mahogany
Rzecz.
mahoń
