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Rosewood

//ˈɹoʊzˌwʊd// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A placename.; A locality in the Greater Hume council area and the Snowy Valleys council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  3. 3
    A placename.; A locality in the Port Macquarie-Hastings council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  4. 4
    A placename.; A town and locality in Queensland, Australia.
  5. 5
    A placename.; An affluent residential neighborhood of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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  1. 6
    A placename.; An unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, United States.
  2. 7
    A placename.; An unincorporated community in Tehama County, California, United States.
  3. 8
    A placename.; A locality in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
  4. 9
    A placename.; An unincorporated community in Levy County, Florida, United States, the site of the Rosewood massacre of 1923.
  5. 10
    A placename.; An unincorporated community in Harrison County, Indiana, United States.
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    A placename.; An unincorporated community in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, United States.
  7. 12
    A placename.; An unincorporated community in Marshall County, Minnesota, United States.
  8. 13
    A placename.; An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Missouri, United States.
  9. 14
    A placename.; An unincorporated community in Wayne County, North Carolina, United States.
  10. 15
    A placename.; An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Champaign County, Ohio, United States.
  11. 16
    A placename.; An unincorporated community in the town of Dover, Racine County, Wisconsin, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    The fragrant wood of Dalbergia nigra, a Brazilian tree in the legume family, which has a sweet smell. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    any of those hardwood trees of the genus Dalbergia that yield rosewood — valuable cabinet woods of a dark red or purplish color streaked and variegated with black wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of several dozen woods, resembling that of Dalbergia nigra in some respect. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork wordnet
  5. 5
    The wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, in the laurel family, with fragrant wood from which an essential oil is distilled. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    Wood and plant of Pterocarpus spp., for example African rosewood or mukula or Burmese rosewood (Pterocarpus indicus, syn. Pterocarpus santalinus). countable, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

A compound of rose + wood, originally so named because of the rose-scented aromatic oil derived from it; applied in later senses on account of these woods’ predominantly reddish-brown colour.

Etymology 2

From rosewood.

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