Ebony

[eb·on·y]

Ebony is a very dark black color, or a south Asian tropical tree with hard, dark colored heartwood. Black piano keys and black chess pieces are often made with ebony.

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A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.

Noun
a very dark black

Noun
tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork

Noun
hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys

Adjective S.
very dark black


n.
A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.

a.
Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.


Ebony

Eb"on*y , n.; pl. Ebonies . [F. '82b'8ane, L. ebenus, fr. Gr. ; prob. of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. hobn'c6m, pl. Cf. Ebon.] A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green. &hand; The finest black ebony is the heartwood of Diospyros reticulata, of the Mauritius. Other species of the same genus (D. Ebenum, Melanoxylon, etc.), furnish the ebony of the East Indies and Ceylon. The West Indian green ebony is from a leguminous tree (Brya Ebenus), and from the Exc'91caria glandulosa.

Ebony

Eb"on*y, a. Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.
This ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling.

A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.

Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.

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