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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
Chloroxylon swietenia
    n 1: East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish
         wood; [syn: satinwood, satinwood tree, Chloroxylon
         swietenia]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Satinwood \Sat"in*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
   The hard, lemon-colored, fragrant wood of an East Indian tree
   (Chloroxylon Swietenia). It takes a lustrous finish, and is
   used in cabinetwork. The name is also given to the wood of a
   species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum Caribaeum) growing in
   Florida and the West Indies.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Yellowwood \Yel"low*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
   The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees;
   also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so
   called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous
   tree; the several species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum); the
   Australian Flindersia Oxleyana, a tree related to the
   mahogany; certain South African species of Podocarpus,
   trees related to the yew; the East Indian Podocarpus
   latifolia; and the true satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia).
   All these Old World trees furnish valuable timber.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Zantewood \Zan"te*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
   (a) A yellow dyewood; fustet; -- called also zante, and
       zante fustic. See Fustet, and the Note under
       Fustic.
   (b) Satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia).
       [1913 Webster]

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