Found 2 items, similar to Chloroxylon Swietenia.
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Definition: Chloroxylon swietenia
Chloroxylon swietenia
n : East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood;
[syn:
satinwood,
satinwood tree]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Chloroxylon Swietenia
Satinwood
\Sat"in*wood`\, 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 Carib[ae]um) growing in
Florida and the West Indies.
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Zantewood
\Zan"te*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
(a) A yellow dyewood; fustet; -- called also
zante, and
zante fustic. See
Fustet, and the Note under
Fustic.
(b) Satinwood (
Chloroxylon Swietenia).
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Yellowwood
\Yel"low*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees;
also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so
called are the
Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous
tree; the several species of prickly ash (
Xanthoxylum); the
Australian
Flindersia Oxleyana, a tree related to the
mahogany; certain South African species of
Podocarpus,
trees related to the yew; the East Indian
Podocarpus latifolia
; and the true satinwood (
Chloroxylon Swietenia).
All these Old World trees furnish valuable timber.
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