mahogany tree

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun mahogany tree has 1 sense

mahogany tree(n = noun.plant) mahogany - 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; Array

is a member of family meliaceae, mahogany family, meliaceae

has particulars: cedrela odorata, spanish cedar, spanish cedar tree, african scented mahogany, cedar mahogany, entandrophragma cylindricum, sapele mahogany, african mahogany, cuban mahogany, dominican mahogany, swietinia mahogani, true mahogany, honduras mahogany, swietinia macrophylla, cedrela calantas, kalantas, philippine cedar, philippine mahogany, toona calantas, hardtack

is a kind of tree

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CIDE DICTIONARY

mahogany tree, n. [From the South American name.].

A large tree of the genus Swietenia (Swietenia Mahogoni), found in tropical America. [1913 Webster]
" Several other trees, with wood more or less like mahogany, are called by this name; as, African mahogany (Khaya Senegalensis), Australian mahogany (Eucalyptus marginatus), Bastard mahogany (Batonia apetala of the West Indies), Indian mahogany (Cedrela Toona of Bengal, and trees of the genera Soymida and Chukrassia), Madeira mahogany (Persea Indica), Mountain mahogany, the black or cherry birch (Betula lenta), also the several species of Cercocarpus of California and the Rocky Mountains." [1913 Webster]
The wood of the Swietenia Mahogoni. It is of a reddish brown color, beautifully veined, very hard, and susceptible of a fine polish. It is used in the manufacture of furniture. [1913 Webster]
A table made of mahogany wood. [1913 Webster]

To be under the mahogany, to be so drunk as to have fallen under the table. [Eng.] -- To put one's legs under some one's mahogany, to dine with him. [Slang]

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