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calamander|kæləˈmændə(r)|
Also calaminder, (? calaminda).
[Of uncertain origin: see quot. 1859. Clough Singhalese Dict. gives kalumadīriya as the Singhalese name; which Forbes Watson cites also as calumidiriya, kalumederiye, etc., but these may be adaptations of the Dutch.]
A beautiful and extremely hard cabinet wood of Sri Lanka and India, the product of Diospyros quæsita (family Ebenaceæ), specifically akin to ebony.
1804R. Percival Ceylon in Ann. Rev. II. 47/2 The banyan, the cotton-tree, the tickwood, and the beautiful calamander..are indigenous here. 1828Heber Journ. Upper India (1844) II. 161 (Y.) The Calamander tree..is become scarce from the improvident use formerly made of it. 1833H. Martineau Cinnamon & P. v. 79 The finely-veined calaminda. 1859Tennent Ceylon I. i. iii. 118, I apprehend that the name Calamander, which was used by the Dutch, is but a corruption of Coromandel. |