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    CAVIUNA WOOD

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    An important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with blackplay

    Synonyms:

    Brazilian rosewood; caviuna wood; Dalbergia nigra; jacaranda

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    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("caviuna wood" is a kind of...):

    rosewood; rosewood tree (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)

    Holonyms ("caviuna wood" is a member of...):

    Dalbergia; genus Dalbergia (large genus of tropical trees having pinnate leaves and paniculate flowers and cultivated commercially for their dramatically grained and colored timbers)

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