Rosewood

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rosewood \Rose"wood\, n.
     A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and
     variegated with black, obtained from several tropical
     leguminous trees of the genera {Dalbergia} and {Machaerium}.
     The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the
     {Dalbergia nigra}.


     [1913 Webster]
  
     {African rosewood}, the wood of the leguminous tree
        {Pterocarpus erinaceus}.
  
     {Jamaica rosewood}, the wood of two West Indian trees
        ({Amyris balsamifera}, and {Linocieria ligustrina}).
  
     {New South Wales rosewood}, the wood of {Trichilia
        glandulosa}, a tree related to the margosa.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rosewood
       n 1: hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly
            marked grain; used in cabinetwork
       2: any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that
          yield rosewood--valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or
          purplish color streaked and variegated with black [syn: {rosewood
          tree}]

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Rosewood, CA
    Zip code(s): 90222