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ROSEWOOD TREE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
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; rosewood tree
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("rosewood tree" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Meronyms (substance of "rosewood tree"):
rosewood (hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rosewood tree"):
Dalbergia latifolia; East India rosewood; East Indian rosewood; Indian blackwood; Indian rosewood (East Indian tree having a useful dark purple wood)
Brazilian rosewood; caviuna wood; Dalbergia nigra; 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)