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rosewood

DEFINITIONS OF: rosewood

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n 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

Synonyms:
rosewood tree
Types:
Dalbergia latifolia, East India rosewood, East Indian rosewood, Indian blackwood, Indian rosewood
East Indian tree having a useful dark purple wood
Brazilian rosewood, Dalbergia nigra, caviuna wood, jacaranda
an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black
Dalbergia stevensonii, Honduras rosewood
Central American tree yielding a valuable dark streaked rosewood
Type of:
tree
a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

n hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork

Types:
Andaman redwood, amboyna
mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus
Type of:
wood
the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
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