Ceylon satinwood

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• Satinwood — can mean the following:*A name for a wood that can be polished to a high gloss, in particular two woods, from the flowering plant family Rutaceae: ** Chloroxylon swietenia Ceylon Satinwood or East Indian Satinwood ** Zanthoxylum flavum Jamaican… …   Wikipedia

• satinwood — n. 1 a (in full Ceylon satinwood) a tree, Chlororylon swietenia, native to central and southern India and Ceylon. b (in full West Indian satinwood) a tree, Fagara flava, native to the West Indies, Bermuda, the Bahamas, and southern Florida. 2 the …   Useful english dictionary

• satinwood — noun Wood used for crafting fine furniture, particularly for inlay and marquetry, from either , the Ceylon or East Indian satinwood, or , the Jamaican or West Indian satinwood …   Wiktionary

• satinwood — /sat n wood /, n. 1. the satiny wood of an East Indian tree, Chloroxylon swietenia, of the rue family, used esp. for making furniture. 2. the tree itself. [1785 95; SATIN + WOOD1] * * * ▪ tree       (Chloroxylon swietenia), tree of the Rutaceae… …   Universalium

• Chloroxylon — swietenia Chloroxylon swietenia in Narsapur, Medak district, India. Conservation status …   Wikipedia

• Satinhölzer —   [za tɛ̃ ], Seidenhölzer, zwei im gehobelten Zustand seidenartig glänzende Holzarten: Westindisches Satinholz (Espenille, Atlasholz): von dem Rautengewächs Zanthoxylum flavum auf Jamaika; fein und gleichmäßig strukturiert; sattgelb bis… …   Universal-Lexikon

• List of Rutaceae genera — There are approximatively 160 genera in the family Rutaceae.A* Achuaria Gereau * Acmadenia Bartl. H.L.Wendl. * Acradenia Kippist * Acronychia J.R.Forst. G.Forst Lemon Aspen, et al * Adenandra Willd. * Adiscanthus Ducke * Aegle Correa Bael *… …   Wikipedia

• Sri Lanka — Ceylon redirects here. For the time period of 1948 1972, see Dominion of Ceylon. For other uses, see Ceylon (disambiguation). Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජය (Sinhala) இலங்கை சனநாயக சமத்துவ… …   Wikipedia

• Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan, adj., n. /sree lahng keuh, lang keuh, shree / an island republic in the Indian Ocean, S of India: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 18,762,075; 25,332 sq. mi. (65,610 sq. km). Cap.: Colombo. Formerly, Ceylon. Arabic, Serendip.… …   Universalium

• Diocese of Kandy —     Diocese of Kandy     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Diocese of Kandy     (Kandiensis.)     Formerly part of the Vicariate of Southern Colombo, Ceylon, India, from which it was cut off as a vicariate Apostolic on 16 April, 1883, and erected into a… …   Catholic encyclopedia