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East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood
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satinwood
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n. Wood used for crafting fine furniture, particularly for inlay and marquetry, from either ''http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroxylon%20swietenia'', the Ceylon or East Indian satinwood, or ''http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanthoxylum%20flavum'', the Jamaican ...
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n. West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily wood [syn: West Indian satinwood , Zanthoxylum flavum ] hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous ...
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Satinwood can mean the following: A name for a wood that can be polished to a high gloss derived from certain species of the flowering plant family Rutaceae : Chloroxylon swietenia , Ceylon / Sri Lanka satinwood or East Indian satinwood Chloroxylon faho ...
Usage examples of satinwood.
The furniture was a scattering of shapely satinwood chairs and tables and a sofa, upholstered in pale green velvet, and a matching, elegant daybed, which Lev had ordered specially for her.
She hurried away to her desk, a little satinwood bonheur du jour that had belonged to Jack's mother, and after some hesitation she wrote, 'Dear Jack - may I beg for forgiveness?
A dozen or so of the finest lived in her bedroom in a glass-fronted, satinwood cabinet lavishly equipped with such toyland artefacts and miniature sofas and teeny-tiny grand pianos.
To the west lay the Forest of Elwynn, its heavy canopy of greatoaks and satinwoods running from the foothills to the sea.