rosewood : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: rosewood	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for rosewood
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rosewood n hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork 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 Synonym(s): rosewood, rosewood tree
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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 {Mach[91]rium}. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the {Dalbergia nigra}. {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.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Rosewood, CA Zip code(s): 90222