English > mahogany tree: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any 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. |
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| Synonym | mahogany |
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| Member of | Meliaceae, family Meliaceae, mahogany family | Tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees |
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| Narrower | African mahogany | African tree having hard heavy odorless wood |
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| African scented mahogany, cedar mahogany, sapele mahogany, Entandrophragma cylindricum | African tree having rather lightweight cedar-scented wood varying in color from pink to reddish brown |
| Honduras mahogany, Swietinia macrophylla | An important Central American mahogany tree |
| Philippine mahogany, Philippine cedar, kalantas, Toona calantas, Cedrela calantas | Philippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood |
| Spanish cedar, Spanish cedar tree, Cedrela odorata | Tropical American tree yielding fragrant wood used especially for boxes |
| hardtack | A mountain mahogany |
| true mahogany, Cuban mahogany, Dominican mahogany, Swietinia mahogani | mahogany tree of West Indies |
| Broader | tree | A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown |
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| Substances | mahogany | wood of any of various mahogany trees |
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| Spanish | caoba |
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| Catalan | caoba |
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