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Satinwood

noun
1.
West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily wood.  Synonyms: West Indian satinwood, Zanthoxylum flavum.
2.
Hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools.
3.
East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood.  Synonyms: Chloroxylon swietenia, satinwood tree.





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"Satinwood" Quotes from Famous Books



... he kept his samples of rare and valuable woods. The polished slabs were laid before him on the table in rows, as he had arranged them to show to a customer: wine-coloured mahogany, and golden satinwood; ebony black as jet; tulip-wood mottled like fine tortoiseshell; coromandel wood, striped black and white like the coat of a civet cat; ghostly basswood, shining white on dead white; woods of clouded grain, and woods of shining grain, grain ...
— The Tree of Heaven • May Sinclair


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


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