BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD

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Meaning:

An important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black

Synonyms:

Brazilian rosewood; caviuna wood; Dalbergia nigra; jacaranda

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Brazilian rosewood" is a kind of...):

rosewood; rosewood tree (any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black)

Holonyms ("Brazilian rosewood" is a member of...):

Dalbergia; genus Dalbergia (large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers)

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