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    ZEBRAWOOD TREE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any of various trees or shrubs having mottled or striped woodplay

    Synonyms:

    zebrawood; zebrawood tree

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("zebrawood 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 "zebrawood tree"):

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

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

    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)

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