| 单词 | philippine mahogany |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPhilippine mahogany Philippine mahogany n. the reddish wood of various trees native to the Philippines, used for furniture-making, carving, etc.; esp. = lauan n. ΚΠ 1914 H. H. Taft Recoll. Full Years x. 214 The Palace furniture..was of red narra, or Philippine mahogany, handsomely carved and displaying on every piece the Spanish coat-of-arms. 1947 J. C. Rich Materials & Methods Sculpt. x. 292 Philippine mahogany is not a true mahogany. The name is applied to at least a half~dozen species of the dipterocarp family. Most of the woods referred to as Philippine mahogany are fairly soft and carve well. 1991 S. Winchester Pacific (1992) 382 The tractors that until last spring ploughed into the forest, and dragged out the logs the lumberjacks had felled: the Philippine mahogany, the teak, the damar. < as lemmas |
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