rosewood : Idioms & Phrases

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African rosewood

  • the wood of the leguminous tree Pterocarpus erinaceus.
Webster 1913

brazilian rosewood

  • noun an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black
    Dalbergia nigra; jacaranda; caviuna wood.
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burmese rosewood

  • noun tree of India and Burma yielding a wood resembling mahogany
    Burma padauk; Pterocarpus macrocarpus.
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east india rosewood

  • noun East Indian tree having a useful dark purple wood
    East Indian rosewood; Dalbergia latifolia; East India rosewood; Indian blackwood.
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east indian rosewood

  • noun East Indian tree having a useful dark purple wood
    East Indian rosewood; Dalbergia latifolia; East India rosewood; Indian blackwood.
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honduras rosewood

  • noun Central American tree yielding a valuable dark streaked rosewood
    Dalbergia stevensonii.
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indian rosewood

  • noun East Indian tree having a useful dark purple wood
    East Indian rosewood; Dalbergia latifolia; East India rosewood; Indian blackwood.
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Jamaica rosewood

  • the wood of two West Indian trees (Amyris balsamifera, and Linocieria ligustrina).
Webster 1913

New South Wales rosewood

  • the wood of Trichilia glandulosa, a tree related to the margosa.
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rosewood tree

  • noun 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
    rosewood.
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