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kingwood

[king-woo d]
noun
  1. a Brazilian wood streaked with violet tints, used especially in cabinetwork.
  2. the tree of the genus Dalbergia that yields this wood.
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Origin of kingwood

First recorded in 1850–55; king + wood1
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British Dictionary definitions for kingwood

kingwood

noun
  1. the hard fine-grained violet-tinted wood of a Brazilian leguminous tree, Dalbergia cearensis, used in cabinetwork
  2. the tree yielding this wood
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