Crossword clues for satinwood
satinwood
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Satinwood \Sat"in*wood`\, n. (Bot.) The hard, lemon-colored, fragrant wood of an East Indian tree ( Chloroxylon Swietenia). It takes a lustrous finish, and is used in cabinetwork. The name is also given to the wood of a species of prickly ash ( Xanthoxylum Carib[ae]um) growing in Florida and the West Indies.
Wiktionary
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 or West Indian satinwood.
WordNet
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 yellowish wood; [syn: satinwood tree, Chloroxylon swietenia]
Wikipedia
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, Madagascar satinwood
- Murraya paniculata, from southeast Asia and Australia
- Nematolepis squamea, from Australia
- Zanthoxylum flavum, Jamaican satinwood or West Indian satinwood
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.