HyperDic: cuban_mahogany

English > 1 sense of the expression Cuban mahogany:
NOUNplantCuban mahogany, true mahogany, Dominican mahogany, Swietinia mahoganimahogany tree of West Indies
English > Cuban mahogany: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningmahogany tree of West Indies.
Synonymstrue mahogany, Dominican mahogany, Swietinia mahogani
Member ofSwietinia, genus SwietiniaTropical American mahogany trees
Broadermahogany, mahogany treeAny 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
Spanishcaoba cubana, caoba dominicana, caoba swietinia, caoba verdadera

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