Found 2 items, similar to Rosewood.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: rosewood
rosewood
n 1: hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly
marked grain; used in cabinetwork
2: any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that
yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or
purplish color streaked and variegated with black [syn:
rosewood tree
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Rosewood
Rosewood
\Rose"wood\, n.
A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and
variegated with black, obtained from several tropical
leguminous trees of the genera
Dalbergia and
Mach[ae]rium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said
to be from the
Dalbergia nigra.
[1913 Webster]
African rosewood, the wood of the leguminous tree
Pterocarpus erinaceus.
Jamaica rosewood, the wood of two West Indian trees
(
Amyris balsamifera, and
Linocieria ligustrina).
New South Wales rosewood, the wood of
Trichilia glandulosa
, a tree related to the margosa.
[1913 Webster]