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Webster 1913 Edition


Satinwood

Sat′in-woodˊ

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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.