Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A deciduous tree (Chloroxylon swietenia) of South Asia, having hard, yellowish, close-grained wood.
- noun A West Indian tree (Zanthoxylum flavum) having smooth, slightly oily, lustrous wood.
- noun Any of several other trees having similar wood.
- noun The wood of any of these trees, used for furniture and cabinetwork.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The wood of Chloroxylon Swietenia, of the order Meliaceæ; also, the tree itself.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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 Caribæum ) growing in Florida and the West Indies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Wood used for crafting fine furniture, particularly for
inlay andmarquetry , from either Chloroxylon swietenia, the Ceylon or East Indian satinwood, or Zanthoxylum flavum, the Jamaican or West Indian satinwood.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily wood
- noun hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools
- noun East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood
Etymologies
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Examples
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Turns out that like the satinwood ladies table it was British and more affordable than a decade ago.
Picky on Provenance Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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There was a satinwood writing table under the window and a work-table in Japanese lacquer, very small and dainty.
Politics 101 2010
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She turned away from its satinwood and pastel brocades and went to the window, which afforded a view of a large formal garden, which even at this dreary time of year looked pleasant, with its sunken pond and statues and straight paths and clipped hedges, but the sight of it did nothing to quiet en her thoughts.
You Don't Take Names Ajay Nair 2010
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She fell in love with the saloon, with the satinwood panels, with the little racks and cupboards, with the recording aneroid in springs.
Movie Night 2010
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Choice pieces of satinwood furniture, some inlaid with mother-of-pearl or gold, gleamed in the half-light.
THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009
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Choice pieces of satinwood furniture, some inlaid with mother-of-pearl or gold, gleamed in the half-light.
THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009
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Choice pieces of satinwood furniture, some inlaid with mother-of-pearl or gold, gleamed in the half-light.
THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009
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Choice pieces of satinwood furniture, some inlaid with mother-of-pearl or gold, gleamed in the half-light.
THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009
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Choice pieces of satinwood furniture, some inlaid with mother-of-pearl or gold, gleamed in the half-light.
THE TIME QUAKE Linda Buckley-Archer 2009
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The hull colors are bold, and cabins are decorated in satinwood and Japanese wood ($4.4 million to $4.6 million; www. azimutyachts.com).
knitandpurl commented on the word satinwood
"It was a pleasant room with a window facing south, a satinwood bed, a satinwood dressing-table, and a satinwood writing desk at which Miss Serendip used to sit and write letters to her seven sisters"
The Wind on the Moon by Eric Linklater, p 19 of the New York Review of Books hardcover
July 17, 2013