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Satinwood

noun
1.
West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily wood.  Synonyms: West Indian satinwood, Zanthoxylum flavum.
2.
Hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools.
3.
East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood.  Synonyms: Chloroxylon swietenia, satinwood tree.





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"Satinwood" Quotes from Famous Books



... hall he had been constrained to unity by a great idea. But not here. And reminiscences of the Canterbury drawing-room had suggested to him that you could mix things. So, using a satinwood suite with tinted marqueterie and old rose upholsterings (he had succumbed to it in the first freshness of his innocence) as a base, he had added Boule cabinets and modern Indian tables in carved open-work to Adams cabinets and Renaissance tables in ebony inlaid ...
— The Belfry • May Sinclair


Words linked to "Satinwood" :   genus Chloroxylon, wood, tree, Chloroxylon, angiospermous yellowwood


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