MAHOGANY

Mahogany

Mahogany is a kind of wood—the straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, part of the chinaberry family, Meliaceae, indigenous to the Americas. The three species are:

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mahogany

Noun

  1. Any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus , having a valuable hard red-brown wood.
  2. The wood of these trees, mostly used to make furniture.
  3. A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.

Adjective

  1. Made of mahogany.
  2. Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.


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