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rosewood
n.
any of several species of tropical trees which produce a dark reddish or purplish wood; variety of dark-colored wood which sometimes emits a light rose-like scent
Rosewood
Rosewood refers to any of a number of richly hued
timbers, often brownish with darker veining but found in many different hues.
rosewood
Noun
1. hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork
(hypernym) wood
(hyponym) amboyna, Andaman redwood
(substance-holonym) rosewood tree
2. any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black
(synonym) rosewood tree
(hypernym) tree
(hyponym) Indian blackwood, East Indian rosewood, East India rosewood, Indian rosewood, Dalbergia latifolia
Rosewood
(n.)
A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machaerium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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