mahogany : Idioms & Phrases

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african mahogany

  • noun African tree having hard heavy odorless wood
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african scented mahogany

  • noun African tree having rather lightweight cedar-scented wood varying in color from pink to reddish brown
    cedar mahogany; Entandrophragma cylindricum; African scented mahogany.
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cedar mahogany

  • noun African tree having rather lightweight cedar-scented wood varying in color from pink to reddish brown
    cedar mahogany; Entandrophragma cylindricum; African scented mahogany.
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cuban mahogany

  • noun mahogany tree of West Indies
    Dominican mahogany; Swietinia mahogani; Cuban mahogany.
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dominican mahogany

  • noun mahogany tree of West Indies
    Dominican mahogany; Swietinia mahogani; Cuban mahogany.
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honduras mahogany

  • noun an important Central American mahogany tree
    Swietinia macrophylla.
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mahogany family

  • noun tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees
    family Meliaceae; Meliaceae.
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mahogany tree

  • noun 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
    mahogany.
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mahogany-red

  • adjective satellite of brown tinged with red
    reddish-brown; red-brown.
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Mountain mahogany

  • (Bot.) See under Mahogany.
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philippine mahogany

  • noun red hardwood of the Philippine mahogany tree used for cigar boxes and interior finish
  • noun Philippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood
    Toona calantas; Cedrela calantas; Philippine cedar; kalantas.
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sapele mahogany

  • noun African tree having rather lightweight cedar-scented wood varying in color from pink to reddish brown
    cedar mahogany; Entandrophragma cylindricum; African scented mahogany.
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To be under the mahogany

  • to be so drunk as to have fallen under the table. Eng.
Webster 1913

To put one's legs under some one's mahogany

  • to dine with him. Slang
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true mahogany

  • noun mahogany tree of West Indies
    Dominican mahogany; Swietinia mahogani; Cuban mahogany.
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