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BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD

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Dictionary entry overview: What does Brazilian rosewood mean?

• BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD (noun)
The noun BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD has 1 sense:

1. an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black

Familiarity information: BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD used as a noun is very rare.

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• BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Brazilian rosewood ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

An important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Brazilian rosewood; caviuna wood; Dalbergia nigra; jacaranda

Hypernyms ("Brazilian rosewood" is a kind of...):

rosewood; 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)

Holonyms ("Brazilian rosewood" is a member of...):

Dalbergia; genus Dalbergia (large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers)

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