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Mahogany
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- 1 Made of mahogany.
- 2 Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.
- 1 A barangay of Butuan, Agusan del Norte, Philippines.
- 1 The valuable wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture. uncountable
"A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away[…]."
- 2 a shade of brown with a tinge of red wordnet
- 3 Any of the trees from which such wood comes. countable
- 4 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 wordnet
- 5 (by extension) Any of various kinds of trees, the timber of which resembles that of trees the genus Swietenia. countable
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- 6 wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture wordnet
- 7 A Cornish drink made from gin and treacle. countable, regional, uncountable
"William Murdoch […] produced a bottle of port; but I chose mahogany (two parts gin and one part treacle, which Lord Eliot made us at Sir Joshua Reynolds's as a Cornish liquor, but it seems they make it also with brandy, and often add porter to it)."
- 8 A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood. countable, uncountable
"Better she, my dear, than a black Mrs. Sedley, and a dozen of mahogany grandchildren."
- 9 A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table. colloquial, countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Poets eat and drink without stint — and seldom at their own cost — for what man of mark or likelihood in the moneyed world is there, who is not eager to get their legs under his mahogany?"
Etymology
A word of unknown origin, concocted in either English or Middle Dutch from one or more exotic phytonyms and common European words. alternative etymologies Alternatively from Portuguese mogano, mógono, obsolete forms of mogno, itself of unknown origin (often suggested to be from the English word instead of the reverse), perhaps from an extinct indigenous language, such as a Mayan language originally spoken in Honduras or a South American language, but no known cognates survive. Another theory attempts to link Yoruba moganwo (“trees”, literally “tall ones”), but this has been criticized.
A word of unknown origin, concocted in either English or Middle Dutch from one or more exotic phytonyms and common European words. alternative etymologies Alternatively from Portuguese mogano, mógono, obsolete forms of mogno, itself of unknown origin (often suggested to be from the English word instead of the reverse), perhaps from an extinct indigenous language, such as a Mayan language originally spoken in Honduras or a South American language, but no known cognates survive. Another theory attempts to link Yoruba moganwo (“trees”, literally “tall ones”), but this has been criticized.
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