linocieria ligustrina

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linocieria ligustrina - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Rosewood \Rose"wood\, n.
     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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     African rosewood, the wood of the leguminous tree
        Pterocarpus erinaceus.
  
     Jamaica rosewood, the wood of two West Indian trees
        (Amyris balsamifera, and Linocieria ligustrina).
  
     New South Wales rosewood, the wood of Trichilia  glandulosa
        , a tree related to the margosa.
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