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    KINGWOOD TREE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet woodplay

    Synonyms:

    Dalbergia cearensis; kingwood; kingwood tree

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("kingwood tree" is a kind of...):

    tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

    Meronyms (substance of "kingwood tree"):

    kingwood (handsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree; used especially in cabinetwork)

    Holonyms ("kingwood tree" 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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