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ZEBRAWOOD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various trees or shrubs having mottled or striped wood

Synonyms:

zebrawood; zebrawood tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("zebrawood" 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 "zebrawood"):

zebrawood (handsomely striped or mottled wood of the zebrawood tree; used especially for cabinetwork)

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

Connarus guianensis (tropical American and east African tree with strikingly marked hardwood used in cabinetwork)

arariba; Centrolobium robustum (Brazilian tree with handsomely marked wood)

Eugenia dicrana; nakedwood (tree of extreme southern Florida and West Indies having thin scaly bark and aromatic fruits and seeds and yielding hard heavy close-grained zebrawood)

Astronium fraxinifolium; goncalo alves (tall tropical American timber tree especially abundant in eastern Brazil; yields hard strong durable zebrawood with straight grain and dark strips on a pinkish to yellowish ground; widely used for veneer and furniture and heavy construction)

marble-wood; marblewood (hard marbled wood)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Handsomely striped or mottled wood of the zebrawood tree; used especially for cabinetwork

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

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

zebrawood; zebrawood tree (any of various trees or shrubs having mottled or striped wood)

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