Satinwood

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A deciduous tree (Chloroxylon swietenia) of India and Sri Lanka, having hard, yellowish, close-grained wood.
  • n. A West Indian tree (Zanthoxylum flavum) having smooth, slightly oily, lustrous wood.
  • n. The wood of either of these trees, used for furniture and cabinetwork.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Wood used for crafting fine furniture, particularly for inlay and marquetry, from either Chloroxylon swietenia, the Ceylon or East Indian satinwood, or Zanthoxylum flavum, the Jamaican or West Indian satinwood.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The hard, lemon-colored, fragrant wood of an East Indian tree (Chloroxylon Swietenia). It takes a lustrous finish, and is used in cabinetwork. The name is also given to the wood of a species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum Caribæum) growing in Florida and the West Indies.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The wood of Chloroxylon Swietenia, of the order Meliaceæ; also, the tree itself.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily wood
  • n. hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools
  • n. East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood
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