| 单词 | african blackwood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAfrican blackwood African blackwood n. the timber of the East African tree Dalbergia melanoxylon (family Fabaceae ( Leguminosae)), whose dense, purplish-brown, black-streaked wood is used for carving and for making woodwind instruments; the tree itself; also called mpingo. ΚΠ 1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 74 Black Botany-Bay wood, called also African Black-wood, is perhaps the hardest, and also the most wasteful of all the woods. 1908 Bull. Imperial Inst. 6 239 The well known ‘African blackwood’, otherwise called ‘Cape Damson’. It is a valuable substitute for ebony. 1979 Early Music 7 559 (advt.) Instruments are available in a range of exotic woods..boxwood, satinwood,..African Blackwood, sycamore and cherrywood. 2005 Trees (Eyewitness Compan.) 196 Found in deciduous woodlands and dry savannas, the African blackwood usually has many branches, which bear thick spines at the nodes. < as lemmas |
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