blackwood tree
- noun
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árbol de madera negra
- The blackwood tree is highly valued for making musical instruments like clarinets and oboes.
Examples
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Furniture made from blackwood trees is prized for its durability and rich color.
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Many blackwood trees thrive in tropical climates.
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Several species are considered a blackwood tree because of their distinctive dark timber.
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The blackwood tree is known for its durability.
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Furniture made from blackwood tree is prized for its durability and rich color.
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The blackwood tree is highly valued for making musical instruments like clarinets and oboes.
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Several species are considered a blackwood tree because of their distinctive dark timber.
Synonyms
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A hard dark reddish wood from tropical trees used to make fine furniture and musical instruments
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A tree that makes very dark, dense wood used for furniture and musical instruments
A large Indian tree that people use for its very dark hard wood in furniture and musical instruments
A tall Australian tree with hard dark wood used for furniture and instruments
A tropical tree with very hard dark wood used for furniture and carving
A tropical tree that makes hard dark red wood with black streaks, used for fine furniture and musical instruments
A large Brazilian tree with hard dark wood used for furniture and guitars
A large tree from India with hard dark wood used for furniture and musical instruments
A large Indian tree with hard dark purple-brown wood used for fine furniture and musical instruments
A large tree from India with dark, hard wood used for fine furniture and musical instruments
A small tree from Brazil that makes hard dark brown wood used for fine furniture
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents: 'blackwood' (a species yielding very dark-colored wood) + 'tree' denotes a tree that produces dark wood. This X-tree compound follows a common, transparent noun-noun composition pattern found cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the parts will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The name blackwood tree comes from the tree's very dark wood; the inside of the trunk is almost black, so people called it 'blackwood'. So today blackwood tree means a hardwood tree that makes very dark 'wood' used for furniture and musical instruments.