AFRICAN SCENTED MAHOGANY

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Meaning:

African tree having rather lightweight cedar-scented wood varying in color from pink to reddish brown

Synonyms:

African scented mahogany; cedar mahogany; Entandrophragma cylindricum; sapele mahogany

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("African scented mahogany" is a kind of...):

mahogany; mahogany tree (any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish)

Holonyms ("African scented mahogany" is a member of...):

Entandrophragma; genus Entandrophragma (cedar mahogany trees)

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