marblewood

marblewood
noun
1. hard marbled wood
Syn: ↑marble-wood
Hypernyms: ↑zebrawood, ↑zebrawood tree
Substance Holonyms: ↑marble-wood, ↑Andaman marble, ↑Diospyros kurzii
2. large Asiatic tree having hard marbled zebrawood
Hypernyms: ↑tree
Member Holonyms: ↑Diospyros, ↑genus Diospyros
Substance Meronyms: ↑marble-wood

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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun
1.
a. : a large Asiatic tree (Diospyros kurzii) that has a hard mottled wood — called also Andaman marble
b.
(2) : an Australian timber tree of the genus Albizzia
2. : the wood of a marblewood

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/mahr"beuhl wood'/, n.
1. any of several trees having wood somewhat resembling marble in graining or texture, as Diospyros marmorata, of southern Asia, or Olea paniculata, of Australia.
2. the wood of any of these trees.
[1745-55; MARBLE + WOOD1]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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