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Webster 1913 Edition
Satinwood
Sat′in-woodˊ
,Noun.
(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 Caribaeum
) growing in Florida and the West Indies. Definition 2024
satinwood
satinwood
English
Noun
satinwood (countable and uncountable, plural satinwoods)
- Wood used for crafting fine furniture, particularly for inlay and marquetry, from either Chloroxylon swietenia, the Ceylon or East Indian satinwood, or Zanthoxylum flavum, the Jamaican or West Indian satinwood.
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray:
- On a tiny satinwood table stood a statuette by Clodion
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