Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Satinwood   Listen
Satinwood

noun
1.
West Indian tree with smooth lustrous and slightly oily wood.  Synonyms: West Indian satinwood, Zanthoxylum flavum.
2.
Hard yellowish wood of a satinwood tree having a satiny luster; used for fine cabinetwork and tools.
3.
East Indian tree with valuable hard lustrous yellowish wood.  Synonyms: Chloroxylon swietenia, satinwood tree.



Related searches:
satinwood tree
West Indian satinwood


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Satinwood" Quotes from Famous Books



... long, dimly-lit drawing-room, her eyes blazing with a hope that she guessed to be groundless, her lips trembling with a fear that she could not disguise. In her hand she carried a small fan, a fragile toy of lace and satinwood. Something snapped as she entered the room; she had crushed the fan into a ...
— The Toys of Peace • Saki
... times before, sitting under the gilt thunderbolts, apparently as strong in his body, in his wealth, and in his knowledge of secret words that have a power over men and elements, as ever. The old Malay squatted down within a couple of feet from Lingard, leaned his back against the satinwood panel of the bulkhead, then raising his old eyes with a watchful and benevolent expression to the white man's face, clasped his hands between ...
— The Rescue • Joseph Conrad
... he had raised by his entrance to quiver and gyrate like a host of mad bacilli dancing a jig. The shaft of light, falling athwart the dismantled toilet-table, brought something else into view—a tiny fragment of gold chain dangling from the polished satinwood drawer. ...
— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com