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Webster 1913 Edition
Rosewood
Rose′wood
,Noun.
A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera
Dalbergia
and Machaerium
. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra
. African rosewood
, the wood of the leguminous tree
– Pterocarpus erinaceus
. Jamaica rosewood
, the wood of two West Indian trees (
– Amyris balsamifera
, and Linocieria ligustrina
). New South Wales rosewood
, the wood of
Trichilia glandulosa
, a tree related to the margosa.