Thesaurus: ebony

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1. n. A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.
2. a. Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.
3. adj. of a very dark black
4. n. a very dark black
5. n. hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys
6. n. tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork
7. A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green. Note: The finest black ebony is the heartwood of Diospyros reticulata, of the Mauritius. Other species of the same genus (D. Ebenum, Melanoxylon, etc.), furnish the ebony of the East Indies and Ceylon. The West Indian green ebony is from a leguminous tree (Brya Ebenus), and from the Excæcaria glandulosa. Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance. This ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling. Poe.
8. A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polishor gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.
9. n:100 n. hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys n. tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork