Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The horse-flesh mahogany, Lysiloma Sabicu. Also
savacu .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The very hard wood of a leguminous West Indian tree (
Lysiloma Sabicu ), valued for shipbuilding.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a West
Indian tree (Lysiloma sabicu) - noun the
hard dark wood of the sabicutree , which resemblesmahogany intexture
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun West Indian tree yielding a hard dark brown wood resembling mahogany in texture and value
- noun the wood of the sabicu which resembles mahogany
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Examples
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Four different species of cassias (pink, rainbow, coral and golden) were planted, some not commonly found in Key West, as well as a few Lysiloma sabicu native to Cuba.
KeysNews.com - 2008
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