ROSEWOOD
Dictionary entry overview: What does rosewood mean?
• ROSEWOOD (noun)
The noun ROSEWOOD has 2 senses:
1. hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork
2. 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
Familiarity information: ROSEWOOD used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ROSEWOOD (noun)
Meaning:
Hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("rosewood" is a kind of...):
wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rosewood"):
amboyna; Andaman redwood (mottled curly-grained wood of Pterocarpus indicus)
Holonyms ("rosewood" is a substance 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)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
rosewood tree; rosewood
Hypernyms ("rosewood" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Meronyms (substance of "rosewood"):
rosewood (hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rosewood"):
Dalbergia latifolia; East India rosewood; East Indian rosewood; Indian blackwood; Indian rosewood (East Indian tree having a useful dark purple wood)
Brazilian rosewood; caviuna wood; Dalbergia nigra; jacaranda (an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black)
Dalbergia stevensonii; Honduras rosewood (Central American tree yielding a valuable dark streaked rosewood)
