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单词 calamander
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calamandern.

/kaləˈmandə/
Forms: Also calaminder, (? calaminda).
Etymology: Of uncertain origin: see quot. 1859. Clough Singhalese Dict. gives kalumadīriya as the Sinhalese name; which Forbes Watson cites also as calumidiriya, kalumederiye, etc., but these may be adaptations of the Dutch.
A beautiful and extremely hard cabinet wood of Sri Lanka and India, the product of Diospyros quæsita (family Ebenaceæ), specifically akin to ebony.
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1804 R. Percival Ceylon in Ann. Rev. 2 47/2 The banyan, the cotton-tree, the tickwood, and the beautiful calamander..are indigenous here.
1825 R. Heber Jrnl. 15 Sept. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) II. xxvii. 246 The Calamander tree..is become scarce from the improvident use formerly made of it.
1833 H. Martineau Cinnamon & Pearls v. 79 The finely-veined calaminda.
1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon I. i. iii. 118 I apprehend that the name, Calamander, which was used by the Dutch, is but a corruption of ‘Coromondel’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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