What does mahogany

Webster Dictionary 4. Mahogoni , found in tropical America Mahogany noun the wood of the Swietenia Mahogoni. It is used in the manufacture of furniture Mahogany noun a table made of mahogany wood. Freebase 4. Chambers 20th Century Dictionary 1. Suggested Resources 5. Etymology and Origins 0. Matched Categories Brown Tree Wood. Anagrams for mahogany » Hogmanay.

How to pronounce mahogany? Alex US English. David US English. Mark US English. Daniel British. Libby British. Mia British. Karen Australian. Hayley Australian. Natasha Australian. Veena Indian. Priya Indian. Neerja Indian. Zira US English. Oliver British. Wendy British. Any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish.

Cedrela odorata ; Spanish cedar ; Spanish cedar tree tropical American tree yielding fragrant wood used especially for boxes. African scented mahogany ; cedar mahogany ; Entandrophragma cylindricum ; sapele mahogany African tree having rather lightweight cedar-scented wood varying in color from pink to reddish brown.

African mahogany African tree having hard heavy odorless wood. Cuban mahogany ; Dominican mahogany ; Swietinia mahogani ; true mahogany mahogany tree of West Indies.

Honduras mahogany ; Swietinia macrophylla an important Central American mahogany tree. Cedrela calantas ; kalantas ; Philippine cedar ; Philippine mahogany ; Toona calantas Philippine timber tree having hard red fragrant wood.

Indian red a reddish-brown color resembling the red soil used as body paint by American Indians. The short soft coat comes in shades of fawn to mahogany with a black or red mask and may have white markings on the tips of the toes and chest. It has a feathered, silky coat that comes in shades of chestnut to mahogany , sometimes with splashes of white on the chest and feet.

It has short, erect ears and a short-haired coat that is fawn to red to mahogany with black tips, mask, and ears. A spare parlour and bedroom I refurnished entirely, with old mahogany and crimson upholstery: I laid canvas on the passage, and carpets on the stairs. Fanny's imagination had prepared her for something grander than a mere spacious, oblong room, fitted up for the purpose of devotion: with nothing more striking or more solemn than the profusion of mahogany , and the crimson velvet cushions appearing over the ledge of the family gallery above.

Here, table, highboy chairs, and screen— mahogany , cherry, teak—looked nervous and disproportioned. Nope, he has to be seen landing his chopper on the South Lawn, propping his leather loafers on his mahogany desk in the Oval. Mike Lennon and I were two of a dozen speakers who stood next to the mahogany casket.

She opened the door of a square room with large roses on the white wall-paper, and fine old mahogany furniture. The woods, however, are again pretty thick, and some inferior mahogany among it is used for furniture. You may know it by all these signs of mahogany furniture, and leather upholstery, and waiters of reverential deportment.

It was built at Chatham, from the design of Mr. Oliver Lang, of mahogany and on the diagonal principle.