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Satinwood   Listen
noun
Satinwood  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 Caribaeum) growing in Florida and the West Indies.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Satinwood" Quotes from Famous Books



... and lastly, with fingers trembling with eagerness, she untied the pack- thread that was wound round the workbox, and slowly took off cover after cover; she almost screamed when the last was removed. The box was of satinwood, beautifully finished, and lined with crimson silk; and Mrs. Montgomery had taken good care it should want nothing that Ellen might need to keep her ...
— The Wide, Wide World • Elizabeth Wetherell

... bell. She came back with her eyes on the ground, and paused near the table where the crumpled envelope made a dash of yellow-brown on the polished satinwood. Stonor stood studying the carpet, more concern in his face now that there was only ...
— The Convert • Elizabeth Robins



Words linked to "Satinwood" :   genus Chloroxylon, wood, Zanthoxylum flavum, Chloroxylon, tree, angiospermous yellowwood, satinwood tree, West Indian satinwood



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