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单词 mahogany
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mahogany
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mahogany: mahoganies
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One cherished heirloom in her studio is a mahogany desk that her grandfather fashioned in the 1950s.
Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017)
Below the library is the lecture theatre, modelled on the Royal Institution in London and constructed in deep red Cuban mahogany.
BBC(Dec 29, 2016)
“Solid bronze is really the top, then below that copper, stainless steel and, of course, expensive woods: cherry, mahogany,” supervisor J. Rodney Duster said.
Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016)
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1n wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture
Hypo|Hyper
Philippine mahogany
red hardwood of the Philippine mahogany tree used for cigar boxes and interior finish
cigar-box cedar
fragrant wood much used for cigar boxes
wood
the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
2n any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
mahogany tree
Cedrela odorata, Spanish cedar, Spanish cedar tree
tropical American tree yielding fragrant wood used especially for boxes
African scented mahogany, Entandrophragma cylindricum, cedar mahogany, sapele mahogany
African tree having rather lightweight cedar-scented wood varying in color from pink to reddish brown
African mahogany
African tree having hard heavy odorless wood
Cuban mahogany, Dominican mahogany, Swietinia mahogani, true mahogany
mahogany tree of West Indies
Honduras mahogany, Swietinia macrophylla
an important Central American mahogany tree
Cedrela calantas, Philippine cedar, Philippine mahogany, Toona calantas, kalantas
Philippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood
hardtack
a mountain mahogany
tree
a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
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n a shade of brown with a tinge of red
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
Venetian red, burnt sienna, reddish brown, sepia
brick red
a bright reddish-brown color
copper, copper color
a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper
Indian red
a reddish-brown color resembling the red soil used as body paint by American Indians
brown, brownness
an orange of low brightness and saturation
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