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Satinwood  n.  (Bot.) The hard, lemon-colored, fragrant wood of an East Indian tree (Chloroxylon Swietenia). It takes a lustrous finish, and is used in cabinetwork. The name is also given to the wood of a species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum Caribaeum) growing in Florida and the West Indies.






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"Satinwood" Quotes from Famous Books



... same. An open fire burned in the little grate, and a big white and silver rattan chair was drawn cosily before it. There was a girlish dressing-table with its oval mirror draped in dotted muslin; a dainty writing-desk with everything convenient upon it; and in one corner was a low bookcase of white satinwood. On the top of this case lay a card, "With the best wishes of John Bird," and along the front of the upper shelf were painted the words: "Come, tell us a story!" Below this there was a rich array of good things. The Grimms, Laboulaye, and Hans Christian ...
— Polly Oliver's Problem • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin



Words linked to "Satinwood" :   wood, tree, Zanthoxylum flavum, satinwood tree, angiospermous yellowwood, Chloroxylon swietenia, Chloroxylon, West Indian satinwood



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