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KINGWOOD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood

Synonyms:

Dalbergia cearensis; kingwood; kingwood tree

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("kingwood" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (substance of "kingwood"):

kingwood (handsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree; used especially in cabinetwork)

Holonyms ("kingwood" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Handsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree; used especially in cabinetwork

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("kingwood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("kingwood" is a substance of...):

Dalbergia cearensis; kingwood; kingwood tree (Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood)

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