sateenwood
English
Etymology
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Noun
sateenwood (uncountable)
- Wood of Euxylophora paraensis.
- 1936, University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras Campus). Agricultural Experiment Station, Annual Report for the Fiscal Year ...: 1936-1938, page 35:
- […] even West Indian Cedro from Brazil and Pau Amarillo (Sateenwood) were somewhat eaten.
- 1938, Farm Journal and Country Gentleman, volume 62, page 55:
- Comes in natural maple and sateenwood
- 1957, Harold Ernest Desch, Manual of Malayan Timbers, volume 2, page 511:
- Several timbers of local value are also provided by the Rutaceae[sic], e.g. […] the Malayan ketenggah (Merrillia caloxylon Swingle), sateenwood, also called Brazilian boxwood and pau amarello, (Euxylophora parensis Huber).
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