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satinwood
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun satinwood has 3 senses
- satinwood(n = noun.plant) west indian satinwood, zanthoxylum flavum - West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily wood; Array is a kind of angiospermous yellowwood
- satinwood(n = noun.plant) Array - hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools; Array is a kind of wood
- satinwood(n = noun.plant) chloroxylon swietenia, satinwood tree - East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood; Array is a member of chloroxylon, genus chloroxylon
is a kind of tree
CIDE DICTIONARY
satinwood, n.
The hard, lemon-colored, fragrant wood of an East Indian tree (Chloroxylon Swietenia ). It takes a lustrous finish, and is used in cabinetwork. The name is also given to the wood of a species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum Caribæum ) growing in Florida and the West Indies. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
satinwood, n.
1 a (in full Ceylon satinwood) a tree, Chlororylon swietenia, native to central and southern India and Ceylon. b (in full West Indian satinwood) a tree, Fagara flava, native to the West Indies, Bermuda, the Bahamas, and southern Florida.
2 the yellow glossy timber of either of these trees.
1 a (in full Ceylon satinwood) a tree, Chlororylon swietenia, native to central and southern India and Ceylon. b (in full West Indian satinwood) a tree, Fagara flava, native to the West Indies, Bermuda, the Bahamas, and southern Florida.
2 the yellow glossy timber of either of these trees.
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