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Rosewood

A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machaerium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra.

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Jacaranda 76% connected

The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger wood, and violet wood.

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Tree 76% connected

Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

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Wood 76% connected

Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

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Ambergris noun · 78% connection

A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secreti…

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Basanite noun · 78% connection

Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the…

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Black adjective · 78% connection

Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of…

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Blackwood noun · 78% connection

A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.

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Brazil wood unknown · 78% connection

The wood of the oriental Caesalpinia Sapan; -- so called before the discovery of America.

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Brinded adjective · 78% connection

Of a gray or tawny color with streaks of darker hue; streaked; brindled.

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Brown superl. · 78% connection

Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.

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Calamander wood unknown · 78% connection

A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel-brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of…

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Cassiterite noun · 78% connection

Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; als…

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Coal tar unknown · 78% connection

A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas; used for making…

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Dark adjective · 78% connection

Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep…

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Dun noun · 78% connection

A mound or small hill.

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Ethiops noun · 78% connection

A black substance; -- formerly applied to various preparations of a black or very dark color.

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Gray superl. · 78% connection

White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, t…

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Indigo noun · 78% connection

A kind of deep blue, one of the seven prismatic colors.

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Indigofera noun · 78% connection

A genus of leguminous plants having many species, mostly in tropical countries, several of them yielding indigo, esp. Indigofera tinct…

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Irradiation noun · 78% connection

Act of irradiating, or state of being irradiated.

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Jararaca noun · 78% connection

A poisonous serpent of Brazil (Bothrops jararaca), about eighteen inches long, and of a dusky, brownish color, variegated with red and…

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