ROSEWOOD

rosewood, rosewood tree

(noun) any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black

rosewood

(noun) hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Proper noun

Rosewood (plural Rosewoods)

A surname.

A placename.

A town and locality in Queensland, Australia.

A village in New South Wales, Australia.

An affluent residential neighborhood in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

An unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, United States.

An unincorporated community in Tehama County, California, United States.

A locality in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

An unincorporated community in Levy County, Florida, United States, the site of the Rosewood massacre of 1923.

An unincorporated community in Harrison County, Indiana, United States.

An unincorporated community in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, United States.

An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Minnesota, United States.

An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Missouri, United States.

An unincorporated community in Wayne County, North Carolina, United States.

An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Champaign County, Ohio, United States.

An unincorporated community in the town of Dover, Racine County, Wisconsin, United States.

Anagrams

• orewoods, wood rose

Etymology

Noun

rosewood (countable and uncountable, plural rosewoods)

The fragrant wood of Dalbergia nigra, a Brazilian tree in the legume family, which has a sweet smell.

Any of several dozen woods, resembling that of Dalbergia nigra in some respect.

The wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, in the laurel family, with fragrant wood from which an essential oil is distilled.

Wood and plant of Pterocarpus spp, for example African rosewood or mukula or Burmese rosewood (Pterocarpus indicus, syn. Pterocarpus santalinus).

Synonyms

• (Dalbergia nigra): Brazilian rosewood, Rio rosewood, Bahia rosewood, pianowood

Anagrams

• orewoods, wood rose

Source: Wiktionary

Rose"wood, n.

Definition: 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 Machærium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra. 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition