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Satinwood

noun

West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily wood. Synonyms: West Indian satinwood, Zanthoxylum flavum.

Hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools.

East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood. Synonyms: Chloroxylon swietenia, satinwood tree.

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"Satinwood" Quotes from Famous Books

... he kept his samples of rare and valuable woods. The polished slabs were laid before him on the table in rows, as he had arranged them to show to a customer: wine-coloured mahogany, and golden satinwood; ebony black as jet; tulip-wood mottled like fine tortoiseshell; coromandel wood, striped black and white like the coat of a civet cat; ghostly basswood, shining white on dead white; woods of clouded grain, and woods of shining grain, grain ...

— The Tree of Heaven • May Sinclair

... same. An open fire burned in the little grate, and a big white and silver rattan chair was drawn cosily before it. There was a girlish dressing-table with its oval mirror draped in dotted muslin; a dainty writing-desk with everything convenient upon it; and in one corner was a low bookcase of white satinwood. On the top of this case lay a card, "With the best wishes of John Bird," and along the front of the upper shelf were painted the words: "Come, tell us a story!" Below this there was a rich array of good things. The Grimms, Laboulaye, and Hans Christian ...

— Polly Oliver's Problem • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin