green ebony
noun
1
a
: an ebony of a greenish color
b
: a tree of the genus Diospyros (as D. melanoxylon) yielding such ebony
2
: cocuswood
Word History
First Known Use
1665, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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- devil's-head-in-a-bush
- devil's-horn
- devil's-horns
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- devil's-knitting-needles
- devil's-pitchforks
- devil's-plague
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- devil's-rattlebox
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- devil's-root
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- devil's-snuffbox
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- devil's-tongue
- devil's-tongues
- devil's-walking-stick
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