rosewood
Americannoun
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any of various reddish cabinet woods, sometimes with a roselike odor, yielded by certain tropical trees, especially belonging to the genus Dalbergia, of the legume family.
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a tree yielding such wood.
noun
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the hard dark wood of any of various tropical and subtropical leguminous trees, esp of the genus Dalbergia . It has a roselike scent and is used in cabinetwork
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any of the trees yielding this wood
Etymology
Origin of rosewood
Example Sentences
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Its rosewood handle and rectangular blade have transformed the way I cook and even the way I live.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
The landmark legal reference book he edits, Black’s Law Dictionary, is as much a fixture of American courts as black robes, rosewood gavels and brass scales of justice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
Elites and aspiring members of the middle class filled their homes with furniture of mahogany, rosewood, and ebony.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
By value and by volume, rosewood is one of the most trafficked wildlife products in the world.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2022
From his opened briefcase he fished out the Voigt-Kampff apparatus, seated himself at a nearby rosewood coffee table, and began to assemble the rather simple polygraphic instruments.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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