chloroxylon swietenia

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chloroxylon swietenia - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Satinwood \Sat"in*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
     The hard, lemon-colored, fragrant wood of an East Indian tree
     (Chloroxylon Swietenia). It takes a lustrous finish, and is
     used in cabinetwork. The name is also given to the wood of a
     species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum Caribaeum) growing in
     Florida and the West Indies.
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  Yellowwood \Yel"low*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
     The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees;
     also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so
     called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous
     tree; the several species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum); the
     Australian Flindersia Oxleyana, a tree related to the
     mahogany; certain South African species of Podocarpus,
     trees related to the yew; the East Indian Podocarpus latifolia
     ; and the true satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia).
     All these Old World trees furnish valuable timber.
     [1913 Webster]
     [1913 Webster]

  Zantewood \Zan"te*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
     (a) A yellow dyewood; fustet; -- called also zante, and
         zante fustic. See Fustet, and the Note under
         Fustic.
     (b) Satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia).
         [1913 Webster]

chloroxylon swietenia - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Chloroxylon swietenia
      n 1: East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish
           wood; [syn: satinwood, satinwood tree, Chloroxylon swietenia
           ]