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MAHOGANY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A shade of brown with a tinge of red

Synonyms:

burnt sienna; mahogany; reddish brown; sepia; Venetian red

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("mahogany" is a kind of...):

brown; brownness (an orange of low brightness and saturation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mahogany"):

brick red (a bright reddish-brown color)

copper; copper color (a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper)

Indian red (a reddish-brown color resembling the red soil used as body paint by American Indians)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

mahogany; mahogany tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("mahogany" 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 "mahogany"):

mahogany (wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mahogany"):

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)

hardtack (a mountain mahogany)

Holonyms ("mahogany" is a member of...):

family Meliaceae; mahogany family; Meliaceae (tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("mahogany" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mahogany"):

Philippine mahogany (red hardwood of the Philippine mahogany tree used for cigar boxes and interior finish)

cigar-box cedar (fragrant wood much used for cigar boxes)

Holonyms ("mahogany" is a substance of...):

mahogany; mahogany tree (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)

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 Context examples: 

I stood and warmed my numbed fingers over the blaze, then I looked round; there was no candle, but the uncertain light from the hearth showed, by intervals, papered walls, carpet, curtains, shining mahogany furniture: it was a parlour, not so spacious or splendid as the drawing-room at Gateshead, but comfortable enough.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The whole party rose accordingly, and under Mrs. Rushworth's guidance were shewn through a number of rooms, all lofty, and many large, and amply furnished in the taste of fifty years back, with shining floors, solid mahogany, rich damask, marble, gilding, and carving, each handsome in its way.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Miss Mowcher untied her bonnet, at this passage of her discourse, threw back the strings, and sat down, panting, on a footstool in front of the fire—making a kind of arbour of the dining table, which spread its mahogany shelter above her head.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A bed supported on massive pillars of mahogany, hung with curtains of deep red damask, stood out like a tabernacle in the centre; the two large windows, with their blinds always drawn down, were half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery; the carpet was red; the table at the foot of the bed was covered with a crimson cloth; the walls were a soft fawn colour with a blush of pink in it; the wardrobe, the toilet-table, the chairs were of darkly polished old mahogany.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)