Meaning | An important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black. |
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Synonyms | Brazilian rosewood, caviuna wood, Dalbergia nigra |
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Member of | Dalbergia, genus Dalbergia | large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers |
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Broader | rosewood, rosewood tree | 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 |
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Spanish | jacaranda, jacarandá |
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