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Some intense blooms tint the ocean in swirling blues, mahoganies or “red tides” visible from space—psychedelic watercolors of microscopic life on a macroscale.

From Scientific American • Jan. 24, 2022

To make up for the dearth of propane gas and kerosene, peasants have slashed away at trees, even mangoes, windbreaks and the mahoganies that shade the coffee crop.

From Time Magazine Archive

The furniture crafted from the grand mahoganies is said to glow and "smile" at the beholder.

From Time Magazine Archive

Technicolor has seldom been more affectionately used than in its registrations of the sober mahoganies and tender muslins and benign gaslights of the period.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cane-fields are broad sheets of beautiful gold-green; and nearly as bright are the masses of pomme-cannelle frondescence, the groves of lemon and orange; while tamarind and mahoganies are heavily sombre.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio