name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
rosewood
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Pronunciation
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General-American: /ˈɹoʊzˌwʊd/
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name
Meaning 2
A placename.
A locality in the Greater Hume council area and the Snowy Valleys council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
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name
Meaning 3
A placename.
A locality in the Port Macquarie-Hastings council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
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name
Meaning 4
A placename.
A town and locality in Queensland, Australia.
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name
Meaning 5
A placename.
An affluent residential neighborhood of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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name
Meaning 6
A placename.
An unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, United States.
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name
Meaning 7
A placename.
An unincorporated community in Tehama County, California, United States.
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name
Meaning 8
A placename.
A locality in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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name
Meaning 9
A placename.
An unincorporated community in Levy County, Florida, United States, the site of the Rosewood massacre of 1923.
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name
Meaning 10
A placename.
An unincorporated community in Harrison County, Indiana, United States.
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name
Meaning 11
A placename.
An unincorporated community in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, United States.
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name
Meaning 12
A placename.
An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Minnesota, United States.
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name
Meaning 13
A placename.
An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Missouri, United States.
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name
Meaning 14
A placename.
An unincorporated community in Wayne County, North Carolina, United States.
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name
Meaning 15
A placename.
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Champaign County, Ohio, United States.
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name
Meaning 16
A placename.
An unincorporated community in the town of Dover, Racine County, Wisconsin, United States.
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noun
Meaning 17
The fragrant wood of Dalbergia nigra, a Brazilian tree in the legume family, which has a sweet smell.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 18
Any of several dozen woods, resembling that of Dalbergia nigra in some respect.
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noun
Meaning 19
The wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, in the laurel family, with fragrant wood from which an essential oil is distilled.
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noun
Meaning 20
Wood and plant of Pterocarpus spp., for example African rosewood or mukula or Burmese rosewood (Pterocarpus indicus, syn. Pterocarpus santalinus).
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noun
Meaning 21
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: rosewood tree
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Broader terms: tree
Narrower terms: Indian blackwood, East Indian rosewood, East India rosewood, Indian rosewood, Dalbergia latifolia, Brazilian rosewood, caviuna wood, jacaranda, Dalbergia nigra, Honduras rosewood, Dalbergia stevensonii
noun
Meaning 22
hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork
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Broader terms: wood
Narrower terms: amboyna, Andaman redwood
History
Etymology
From rosewood.
A compound of rose + wood, originally so named because of the rose-scented aromatic oil derived from it; applied in later senses on account of these woods’ predominantly reddish-brown colour.
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: палисандър (palisandǎr) — fragrant wood of Dalbergia nigra
- Catalan: palissandre — fragrant wood of Dalbergia nigra
- Chinese Mandarin: 紅木 /红木 (hóngmù) — fragrant wood of Dalbergia nigra
- German: Rio-Palisander — fragrant wood of Dalbergia nigra
- German: Bahia- und Brasilianisches Rosenholz — fragrant wood of Dalbergia nigra
- German: Palisander — fragrant wood of Dalbergia nigra
- Polish: palisander — fragrant wood of Dalbergia nigra
- Russian: палисандр (palisandr) — fragrant wood of Dalbergia nigra
- Russian: палисандр (palisandr) — any of many woods that resemble Dalbergia nigra
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