Crossword clues for cocobolo
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An oily tropical hardwood from Central America. 2 An old South American coin.
WordNet
n. a valuable timber tree of tropical South America [syn: Dalbergia retusa]
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 (not often used) is a creamy yellow, with a sharp boundary with the heartwood. The heartwood changes color after being cut.
The heartwood is dense; some cocobolo has a specific gravity of over 1.0, and will sink in water.
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.