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A valuable timber tree of tropical South America
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cocobolo
Word definitions for cocobolo in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An oily tropical hardwood from Central America. 2 An old South American coin.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cocobolo \Co`co*bo"lo\, Cocobolas \Co`co*bo"las\, n. [Sp. cocobolo.] (Bot.) A very beautiful and hard wood, obtained in the West India Islands. It is used in cabinetmaking, for the handles of tools, and for various fancy articles.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a valuable timber tree of tropical South America [syn: Dalbergia retusa ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Cocobolo is a tropical hardwood of Central American trees belonging to the genus Dalbergia . Only the heartwood is used; this is typically orange or reddish-brown in color, often with a figuring of darker irregular traces weaving through the wood. The sapwood ...
Usage examples of cocobolo.
Forced to continue on past, he glanced surreptitiously at the paduk and cocobolo handicrafts on display in the window.
He was handsome, had great stamina, and his body seemed chiseled from hard cocobolo wood.
Work lights on yellow cabling had been strung the length of the gangway, their steady light revealing curved, ribbed walls and floor mottled black and red like cocobolo wood.
Stitched time and again until it held the Springfield perfectly balanced, it made her pants almost a second skin, and she didn't feel comfortable unless she could feel the Cocobolo grip's texture nesting against the base of her spine.
Cocobolo wood for the riser, leather covering for the arrow shelf and the strike plate, antelope horn for the tips.