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rosewood

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rose=wood

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun rosewood has 2 senses

rosewood(n = noun.plant) Array - hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork; Array

has particulars:

amboyna

andaman redwood

is a kind of wood

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

has particulars: dalbergia latifolia, east india rosewood, east indian rosewood, indian blackwood, indian rosewood, brazilian rosewood, caviuna wood, dalbergia nigra, jacaranda, dalbergia stevensonii, honduras rosewood

is a kind of tree

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CIDE DICTIONARY

rosewood, n.

A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machærium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra. [1913 Webster]

African rosewood, the wood of the leguminous tree Pterocarpus erinaceus. -- Jamaica rosewood, the wood of two West Indian trees (Amyris balsamifera, and Linocieria ligustrina). -- New South Wales rosewood, the wood of Trichilia glandulosa, a tree related to the margosa.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

rosewood, n. any of several fragrant close-grained woods used in making furniture.

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