blackwood
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- noun
:
árbol de madera negra
- The carpenter used blackwood to craft a beautiful table for the dining room.
- blackwood tree
- blackwood log
- blackwood branches
Examples
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Musicians often prefer instruments made from blackwood for its rich sound and durability.
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And for that reason, the Blackwood had a trunk.
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The wind hissed through the blackwood needles with a noise like a dozen women whispering together in a distant room.
Fiction book (1990) -
The land beneath the jumper changed slightly as they made their way slowly north, the giant jades that dominated the massif's rim giving way to taller, needle-leaved blackwoods.
Fiction book (1990) -
The furniture shop featured several elegant pieces made from blackwood, showcasing its deep hue.
Synonyms
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Strong wood from trees with wide leaves like oak or maple used for floors and furniture
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A hard dark reddish wood from tropical trees used to make fine furniture and musical instruments
A large hardwood tree that makes very dark wood used for furniture and musical instruments
A tall Australian tree with hard dark wood used for furniture and instruments
A large Indian tree that people use for its very dark hard wood in furniture and musical instruments
A very hard, almost black wood that people use for fine furniture and musical instruments
A large tree from India with hard dark wood used for furniture and musical instruments
A large Brazilian tree with hard dark wood used for furniture and guitars
A tropical tree that makes hard dark red wood with black streaks, used for fine furniture and musical instruments
Compounds
A large hardwood tree that makes very dark wood used for furniture and musical instruments
- Indian
A large Indian tree that people use for its very dark hard wood in furniture and musical instruments
How Dark
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Blackwood names any tree that makes very dark wood and comes from black + wood, meaning 'dark wood'. So a tree is called blackwood because of the dark wood it produces.