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MAHOGANY TREE

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

mahogany; mahogany tree

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("mahogany tree" 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 "mahogany tree"):

mahogany (wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mahogany tree"):

Cedrela odorata; Spanish cedar; Spanish cedar tree (tropical American tree yielding fragrant wood used especially for boxes)

African scented mahogany; cedar mahogany; Entandrophragma cylindricum; sapele mahogany (African tree having rather lightweight cedar-scented wood varying in color from pink to reddish brown)

African mahogany (African tree having hard heavy odorless wood)

Cuban mahogany; Dominican mahogany; Swietinia mahogani; true mahogany (mahogany tree of West Indies)

Honduras mahogany; Swietinia macrophylla (an important Central American mahogany tree)

Cedrela calantas; kalantas; Philippine cedar; Philippine mahogany; Toona calantas (Philippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood)

hardtack (a mountain mahogany)

Holonyms ("mahogany tree" is a member of...):

family Meliaceae; mahogany family; Meliaceae (tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees)

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