单词 | mahogany |
释义 | mahogany (once / 1539 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY mahogany: mahoganies USAGE EXAMPLESOne 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) 1 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 cedarfragrant 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 2Syn|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 mahoganyAfrican tree having rather lightweight cedar-scented wood varying in color from pink to reddish brown African mahoganyAfrican tree having hard heavy odorless wood Cuban mahogany, Dominican mahogany, Swietinia mahogani, true mahoganymahogany tree of West Indies Honduras mahogany, Swietinia macrophyllaan important Central American mahogany tree Cedrela calantas, Philippine cedar, Philippine mahogany, Toona calantas, kalantasPhilippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood hardtacka mountain mahogany tree a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms 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 colora reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper Indian reda 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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